Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19238 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 21:46:30 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received: from netmail01.services.quay.plus.net (212.159.14.219) by mailstore with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 21:46:30 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Received: (qmail 22103 invoked by uid 10001); 28 Mar 2003 21:46:29 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Received: from post.thorcom.com (193.82.116.70) by netmail01.services.quay.plus.net with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 21:46:29 -0000 X-SQ: A Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 18z1fQ-00064E-ML for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:45:40 +0000 Received: from [212.164.44.2] (helo=astral.omskcity.com) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 18z1fI-000645-Nb for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:45:32 +0000 Received: from fitec.omskcity.com (mu04.dialup2.infomsk.ru [212.164.44.116]) by astral.omskcity.com (8.x.x) with SMTP id DAA3e84c15525f4 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:40:37 +0600 (OS) Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:44:00 +0000 (GMT) From: "Alexander S. Yurkov" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org In-reply-to: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: LF: RE: Good News and bad news from GM Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-24.4 required=5.0tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_PINEversion=2.51 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.51 (1.174.2.5-2003-03-20-exp) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Hi Bill and Group. On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ashlock,William wrote: > What kind of soil do you have? Also, what type of ground screen do you have > under the antenna? The Lowfer guys in this area (eastern US) experience the > opposite effect. In other words, as the ground dries out we see improved > antenna current. Soil is fairly sandy and I'm thinking this is the reason. IMHO ground loss itself and enviroment loss yelds opposite effects. Whan it is rain ground loss became less while enviroment loss (by trees mainly) became more. Thus current improved when trees but not ground dries... Is it much trees arround Your antenna, Bill? 73 de RA9MB/Alex http://www.qsl.net/ra9mb