Cute idea

[VE7NOT]

Hidden antenna (http://users.erols.com/k3mt/graswire/graswire.htm)

This is an idea I have never seen before http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[ve2nsm]

I have the feeling it could be a very good receive antenna.

[cu2jt]

Wouldn't work here - too much salt in the ground (100 yards from a stormy Atlantic Ocean)

- Unless I would work people on "ground wave"...

[ka0gkt]

Hmmmmm...wasn't April First a few days ago?

Seriously, I have used a similar antenna in past years. It works quite nicely, especially if you plan to go fishing. The nightcrawlers just about jump out of the ground along the length and about 2' (60 cm) either side of the wire! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

73 DE KAØGKT/7

--Steve

[n2cfj]

The navy uses an antenna system to communicate on VLF with submarines that ends up using the entire earth as an antenna. I think it only works in certain areas.

[w8znx]

its not even a third rate receive antenna

this sort of thing is not new
simple ideas like this
have been tryed hundreds of times
since the first ham ops got on the air

if it was half way good
lots of ops would be using them

have you ever worked anybody
using this antenna

how often do you work ops using a dipoles

for the 10,000th #time
the most important part of a ham station
is the ANTENNA

will never under stand
ops that keep trying/using

antenna ideas that have been tryed
and rejected over 70 years ago

knew a op
that used a antenna like this for receive

would hang out on 3875
there would be 8 to 10 ops in the round table
everybody could hear everybody else FB
excpt this op
he could not hear half the stations on freq

it was a pain him always asking for repeats

Mac dit dit