Correct, According to Alpha-Delta, that is the principal that they use in 
the tripod that I have.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: How good a ground plane is a tripod?


> It doesn't really matter if you have metal contact with the tripod just
> as it doesn't matter on the car top.  It is capacitively coupled.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> Should work.  On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Howard, W A 9 Y B W wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> It seems like the tripod would work, however, is the magnet coated with
>> anything that would insulate it from the metal electrically?  I only 
>> wonder
>> because you wouldn't want the magnet scratching the painted surface of 
>> your
>> vehicle.  Check the continuity between the coax shield and the surface of
>> the magnet.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> 73's
>>
>> Howard #3, WA9YBW
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kevin Minor" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 9:46 PM
>> Subject: How good a ground plane is a tripod?
>>
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a mag mount antenna for 2 meters and 440.  I currently have it on 
>>> a
>>> tripod, and I was wondering if this would make a decent ground plane for
>>> the
>>> antenna.  I've seen quarter wave ground planes with the ground elements 
>>> at
>>> an angle, and since the tripod has a similar angle I thought this would
>>> work.  The tripod is three feet tall with the legs open.  The antenna's
>>> mag
>>> mount is attracted to the tripod, so no worries of it falling off.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just curious.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> GO CATS!
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
>>>
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>>
>>