Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28065 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 14:47:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO murphys-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.225) by excalibur-qfe1-smtp-plusnet.harl.plus.net with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 14:47:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 17450 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 14:47:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by murphys with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 14:47:29 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 157HyV-0001oo-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:38:27 +0100 Received: from jubilee.ns.sympatico.ca ([142.177.1.6] helo=mail-ns00s0.ns.sympatico.ca) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 157HyR-0001oj-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:38:23 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from ns.sympatico.ca ([142.177.104.58]) by mail-ns00s0.ns.sympatico.ca (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-68925U141000L141000S0V35) with ESMTP id ca for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:36:45 -0300 Message-ID: <3B1CA90B.536574A2@ns.sympatico.ca> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 02:40:28 -0700 From: "John Currie" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: Re: LF: Wire in the Air more info. References: <002801c0edbe$a5096780$b428893e@g3aqc> Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Hi Laurie, About your antenna . Did you find that the extra wire allowed you to reduce your loading coil? I am thinking about Big Pond again.

I looked at my computer last night . I couldn't find any images . I probably didn't bother because I thought the frequencey was wrong,sri
Saw nil last night I will look again tonight if you or Peter will tranamit, or anyone else for that matter . Again I will be using 30 sec dots so all should be between 91.920 and 71.926 kHz 73 de John VE1ZJ

Laurie Mayhead wrote:

During the T/A tests last winter I ran out 2 additional radials 150 ft. long into the sea water with 4ft long earth rods. Recently the grass had to be cut so I brought these radial in,carefully checking the Ant. current with and without the radials. NO DIFF!This brought me back to the" wire in the air theory" and I did somthing that I have been planning for some time. I added an extra 180 ft in the zig-zag configuration,in spite of the fact that Eznec recons that my top load is long enough to have linear current in the vert. section,and no improvement to be gained from the additional wire in the air.(Rad. res. only increasing from 0.069-0.070ohms). But Eznec doesnt adequately simulate currents in the ground at these frequencies. So I checked the Ant. current before and after. Before 3.2A after 3.7 Amps!!!Very worth while,and once again "Wire in the Air" is vastly superior to wire in the ground.,at my location at least. My 350mwERP is now 450mw ERP.Antenna now 48ft high, vert section 42ft from top of loading coil. Horizontal top 650 ft (apart from last 180 ft which slopes to 40 ft.Top wires in zig zag config. 73s Laurie.