Bleed sticks..

[Splash1]

Never understood how fibreglass antennas got thr rap of bleedsticks.i mean if you got a decent radio,grounded well,lowpass filter , rf choke,decent coax,how could a glass antenna bleed more than anything else ? i have nieghbors 40 yrds away on both sides of me n i run 100 watts ssb all the time with no trouble at all with a imax 2000 24' hight to the base of the antenna..i mean if you run a clean station i dont see how nothin but clean will come out the other end weather its glass or metal .so what is it with fibreglass [actualy its ''copper'' wire ]thats worse than alunimium ....

 

[mackmobile43]

Never understood how fibreglass antennas got thr rap of bleedsticks.i mean if you got a decent radio,grounded well,lowpass filter , rf choke,decent coax,how could a glass antenna bleed more than anything else ? i have nieghbors 40 yrds away on both sides of me n i run 100 watts ssb all the time with no trouble at all with a imax 2000 24' hight to the base of the antenna..i mean if you run a clean station i dont see how nothin but clean will come out the other end weather its glass or metal .so what is it with fibreglass [actualy its ''copper'' wire ]thats worse than alunimium ....

There are other variables like neighbors having poor quality electronics which will give your issues no matter how good your rf practices may be.

 

[Splash1]

Hmmmm..if one were to cover a metal antenna with fibreglass ,would that make it bleed also ? lol..

 

[BOOTY MONSTER]

its not so much that they are a series of fiberglass tubes with a copper wire inside , as it is that they have no ground plane/elements . they use the mast or coax as a ground element . most aluminium antennas have ground plane elements included in the design and supplied with the antenna . the 99's and 2000's are half an antenna .

 

[W5LZ]

I think the whole problem isn't the fiberglass, or the radials, or the 'other half' of the antenna. I think the problem is more one of the proximity of the antenna to the receivers of that interference. That, and all the other things that contribute to interference in general, or some combination of those things. So why do certain antennas seem to get that 'name'? Because the are fairly common, and an easy answer to a question that sometimes has no other 'easy' answer. And then again, sometimes be cause they are 'noisy' because they were set up wrong for some reason or another.
- 'Doc