Re: LF: Ant current

["Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>]

Oh yes but I think what you are doing here is merely improving the contact 
to the ground, which is a small part of the loss. At these wavelength this 
becomes less important than the conductivity below the atenna and out to the 
remote, high voltage point (hence biggest proportion of the displacement 
current)of the antenna.(see theappendix of Peter Dodd's "Low Frequency 
Experimenters Handbook") Again my measurements show that increased antenna 
capacity by increasing the top wire loading is more advantageous, provided 
this couples to the ground and not lossy "environment". I am unable to test 
this over frozen ground.
Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Schäfer" <Stefan.Schaefer@iup.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: LF: Ant current


> Hello Wolf,
>
> Am 01.02.2014 16:27, schrieb wolf_dl4yhf:
> > I remember a suggestion in 'Rothammel's Antennenbuch' to enrich the soil 
> > with copper sufate (!) which I certainly don't recommend.
> Oh yes, copper sulfate is not to be recommended. Quicksilver should work 
> much better ;-) I think 100 liters is fine for a first test ;-)
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC