I'm not sure that having a ground plane ground mounted is necessarily a
bad thing. When I got my ticket in the 80's, an old ham who was
helping me get started showed up one day with a home brew 10 meter
ground plane.
It was made of 5 lengths of 1/2 electrical conduit. 4 pieces were
attached to a 4 inch metal junction box as radials and the 5th piece was
the vertical, insulated from the metal box with a piece of Lexan or
something.
It sat flat on the ground in a pretty poor location (10 feet from a 4
foot retaining wall with chain link fence on top, and 12 feet from a
large car). I worked the world with it, including getting through a
pile-up to Easter Island.
Good luck in getting things sorted out,
Steve KW3A
On 11/6/2011 7:34 PM, mark wrote:
> Hi
> My vote is that it isn't supposed to be ground mounted. I am a little
> challenged in that it is at best 12 feet from my two meter yagi. So, putting
> it on a pole offers other serious blocking potentials on VHF.
>
> God bless,
> Mark
>
> God Loves you!
> You can visit my website at:
> http://christiantraditions.info
> Please visit my blog at:
> http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of John Miller
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 4:07 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>
> if the lengths are even remotely where they should be adjusting them should
> raise and lower the swr, since both ways raise it, I still say the coax is
> bad, or it's not supposed to be ground mounted.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mark"<[log in to unmask]>
> To:<[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>
>
>> O I tried to adjust the lengths. It is a puzzle though.
>>
>> God bless,
>> Mark
>>
>> God Loves you!
>> You can visit my website at:
>> http://christiantraditions.info
>> Please visit my blog at:
>> http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
>> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 3:00 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>
>> If you used an 11 metter antenna the lengths are a little long.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "mark"<[log in to unmask]>
>> To:<[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 12:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>
>>
>>> Hi Jerry,
>>> The antenna that was acting so contrary is an eleven meter ground
>>> plain. I used some heavy gage wire for radials and ground mounted it.
>>> Whatever is wrong I have yet to figure out.
>>>
>>> God bless,
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> God Loves you!
>>> You can visit my website at:
>>> http://christiantraditions.info
>>> Please visit my blog at:
>>> http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 3:58 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>>
>>> What is your antenna? I missed the original message.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "mark"<[log in to unmask]>
>>> To:<[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 8:13 AM
>>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>> Well, it is the strangest thing. The SWR is higher at the top and
>>>> bottom of the band, which is what one would expect. However, it just
>>>> refuses
>>>> to get much below 4 and that is somewhere in the middle of the band.
>>>> I loosen the clamp and slide the telescoping section in and out a few
>>>> inches , but this just adjusts the point of the dip.
>>>>
>>>> God bless,
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> God Loves you!
>>>> You can visit my website at:
>>>> http://christiantraditions.info
>>>> Please visit my blog at:
>>>> http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 6:50 AM
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>>>
>>>> Mark,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to adjust the antenna length? This will work better
>>>> and put more RF in the sky than messing around with dueling tuners.
>>>> Your radio is probably folding back power to protect itself.
>>>>
>>>> Do some swr checks across the entire 10 meter band and see if there is a
>>>> low spot anywhere in the band. Then you can see if you need to make
>>>> it longer or shorter.
>>>>
>>>> 73, good luck,Steve KW3A
>>>>
>>>> On 11/5/2011 9:29 AM, Fred Adams wrote:
>>>>> I have an IMAX 2000 with a standing wave of 1.3 on 10 meters and with
>>>>> my
>>>>> LDG antenna tuner I can tune all the way up to 20 meters. The SWR is
>>>>> pretty high on 20 meters but the LDG AT 1000 tunes it OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Miller
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 8:41 AM
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>>>>
>>>>> an 11 meter vertical shouldn't be anywhere near that high an SWR on 10
>>>>> meters unless something's wrong with it, it might be close to 2.0 in
>>>>> the
>>>>> lower portion of the band but depending on what it is, I've seen the
>>>>> old
>>>>> antron99's and the like, solarcom A99, Imax2000, all the same antenna
>>>>> there's another one too, carry a good SWR from the bottom of 12 meters
>>>>> all the way to about 29 MHz before it went to 2.0 and an internal tuner
>>>>> brought it down fine, same with the maco V58 and various others so I'd
>>>>> be
>>>>> more inclined to think you have an antenna problem if the SWR's that
>>>>> high.
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "mark"<[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To:<[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 12:18 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: 10 meters
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> I was excited to here both the Javanese and the station from
>>>>> Panama.
>>>>>> The only thing was that as hard as I tried, I couldn't contact anyone.
>>>>>> I think that the SWR on my converted 11 meter vertical is somewhere
>>>>>> between
>>>>>> 4
>>>>>> and 5. With the external antenna tuner it comes down to 3.4 and I
>>>>>> clean up the rest with an the internal tuner on my radio. I am
>>>>>> guessing that if I could get that SWR down below 2 that I would start
>>>>> making contacts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> God bless,
>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>> God Loves you!
>>>>>> You can visit my website at:
>>>>>> http://christiantraditions.info
>>>>>> Please visit my blog at:
>>>>>> http://christian-traditions.blogspot.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>>> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 4:54 PM
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Subject: 10 meters
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it has been years since I have copied J A signals on 10 meters =
>>>>>> like it has been the last couple of weeks. 10 and 12 meters both, not
>>>>>> = to mention 15 meters, has nearly been plugged with Japanese
>>>>>> stations. = It sure doesn't take much, generally, to work the pacific
>>>>>> on 10, that's = for sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Phil.
>>>>>> K0NX
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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