RE: Mini coil earth?

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Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au> 

Thanks Jim, I'll do that.

It's a pity ESD bench mat material (anti-static mat) would be no good for
this, as I have tons of it.

I do have some 100mm wide copper tape (~1mm thick) that I could solder
together with some copper braid (so that it folds up quite small).


 > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > Make a chicken wire or hardware cloth counterpoise.  The
 > radius should be
 > about the height of the topload above the counterpoise. Square, round,
 > hexagonal, matters not... Ground the RF ground (i.e. the bottom of the
 > secondary) to the counterpoise.  Hook the counterpoise to the
 > green wire
 > (safety) ground too, but that's not what you're depending on.
 >
 >
 >
 > almost all the RF current will be carried in the counterpoise.
 >
 >