That's my experience too. Your Inverted L has a much, much higher impedance than any Marconi antenna on any band where it's 1/2 wave or longer. That makes the efficiency far less dependent upon the ground and the effect of the ground much less.
Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Now here's the question.... Folks assume ground radials to be (non resonant) but that isn't the case. So what would be the best solution for a multiband antenna with ground radials? Well if we follow this idea, we would need multiple 1/4 wavelength radials for each HF band for best performance. My inverted L is 50' up and 150' out. I use a separate elevated counterpoise for each band. I've found that a ground rod and some buried radials have virtually no effect. I just use them for lightning protection. Steve N4LQ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
