Bruce in alaska wrote in news:fast-CAC4C1.12584110062009
@unknown.usenetserver.com:

Build your self the
BEST POSSIBLE RF Ground you can, and you'll be the Loudest Station on
the Channels, Hands Down......


Bolt the tuner to a big screen of galvanized chicken wire laid out as far
as you can from the stern up towards the bow....right against the hull.

This makes a big capacitor that couples the RF off into the sea, without
actually causing a big galvanic battery in the process. One plate is the
screen wire, the other is the ocean. The insulator between is that thin
layer of chopper gun plastic they told you was a fiberglass hull....(c;]

The bigger the screen wire plate, the better it works....no direct contact
with seawater or being grounded to anything like the engine block is
necessary....or desired, to prevent galvanic eating. Just unroll a width
of aluminum flyscreen from under the tuner screwed right thru it into the
hull, forward along the side of the hull under the stuff as big as you can.

Works great....big signal....no galvanic battery.

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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?