Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1012 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2000 00:06:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by bells.core.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 19 Jan 2000 00:06:53 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.02 #1) id 12AiWl-0004kZ-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:59:11 +0000 Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net ([199.45.39.156]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 12AiWj-0004kS-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:59:10 +0000 Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-200-120-171.bellatlantic.net [151.200.120.171]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA04050; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:58:58 -0500 (EST) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-ID: <3884FD66.6076D84A@bellatlantic.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:55:19 -0500 From: "Andre' Kesteloot" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD NSCPCD47 (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: Re: LF: Grounds/ERP References: <26757.200001181708@gemini> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: hello LF Friends (and others too), Those of us who were in October 1999 at Old Windsor during the HF/IOTA/LF Conference, will recall that we strung a fairly long antenna above two huge cedar trees. Yet our ground was simply a piece of wire running from the transmitter site to some lightning-rod downlead, certainly not an elaborate ground system... And we immediately started long distance QSOs' :-) 73 Andre' N4ICK ************************* James Moritz wrote: > Dear LF Group, > Was very interested to read G3LDO's piece about antenna > comparisons - it seems that the most important factor for DX > operation on 136kHz may ultimately be the ground, rather than the > antenna.