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RE: Raised Ground

All I'm saying is that historically (1968 to 2019) the commonly acceptable range of 15.219 has consistently been under a mile. I've never come across...

7 years ago
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RE: Raised Ground

I think you at one time had suggested something like sticking a long PVC pipe vertically in the ground and filling it with dirt with the lead running ...

7 years ago
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RE: There's a fuzzy rat running around in my head...

“...but with a long ground lead that signal increases and can overcome an obstruction.” That is a generalization and an assumption and probably also a...

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RE: What Happened in the ALPB?

Personally I don't think the ALPB ever really got off the ground at all.. I was never really a participant of it but did participate in the forums. Yo...

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RE: There's a fuzzy rat running around in my head...

Yeah well, I agree, in this thread you seem to be saying obstructions do disrupt or block a signal, but that it will recover again some distance beyon...

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RE: Critiques About Authors & Posts On Part 15.org

You've not made a response to any of the views expressed in this thread of yous Rich. You asked, we answered. Is your reaction only silence? Or are yo...

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RE: There's a fuzzy rat running around in my head...

Which brings up another thing.. The talking house is certified to operate by achieving ground via the neutral plug on the power receptacle.. therefore...

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RE: There's a fuzzy rat running around in my head...

The point I am making is that in most if not all of these cases the radiating ground lead is in close proximity to some sort of obstruction. That bein...

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RE: There's a fuzzy rat running around in my head...

Over the years the FCC has cited many AM Part 15 operators for ground leads that are excessively long and as such become radiators as well. There is n...

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RE: There's a fuzzy rat running around in my head...

There's never any getting away from the issue of the three meters, it always has and always will be an intricate yet convoluted aspect of part 15. Fro...

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RE: Critiques About Authors & Posts On Part 15.org

The problem with the ground lead discussions is that when it's taken to it's greatest extremes the outcome results in unreasonable approaches to adher...

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RE: Carl's Blogum

A picture of a 36-foot very striking TIS antenna is seen, and here I thought TIS was limited to 10-feet. I believe TIS is limited by 49 feet and ten w...

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RE: Elevated Ground Transmission Antenna

I've mentioned before that I'd like to build a tiny house on wheels, not a big one like a lot are doing now, but maybe an 18 to 20 foot one. Rangemast...

7 years ago
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RE: Elevated Ground Transmission Antenna

You could run your ground lead thru a mud hut and install it on top! "Small round thatched mud hut in Perth zoological garden Western Australia.."

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