From: "Mike Dennison" <mike.dennison@rsgb.org.uk>
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:13:27 -0000
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Subject: Re: LF: Dipole antenna at LF
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> > Many years ago I did read somwhere an article about
> > horizontal dipoles used in the desert that were just laying on the
> > sand.
> 
> I hope this relates, but we used to lay MF and HF antennas on the
> surface of the snow or even ice in the Canadian Arctic.  When we
> started it was a big deal to use some poles about 5 or 6 ft long to
> support the antennas, then we noticed it did not mater (when they fell
> down) so we just let the wire lay on the surface.

This seems to work much better on HF than LF. I have certainly 
used HF antennas that have fallen down, and they work fine for 
short skip.

Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.lf.thersgb.net