John Harper wrote:
I will re-think my radial configuration. It is more of a pita to carry,
untangle, deploy and repack 16 of anything and I may decide to stick
with 4 even at the price of some efficiency. I will have height above
average terrain on my side though. Here is the camping area I have in
mind (for either June or September):
http://www.summitpost.org/images/medium/274856.JPG
Well, if you only want 4 radials, you can make them shorter. The
additional length won't get you anything.
What I would do at a location as pictured (although in my case I would
need a helicopter to get there) is to use your tripod vertical as the
center support for an inverted V near (not too near) a sharp dropoff in
the direction that you want to work. Bring some duct tape and tape the
ends to the ground. Even if the V is only a few feet above the rock, it
will be a *very* high dipole in the direction of the dropoff.
By the way, another problem of a vertical in such a location, is that
even if you get a good counterpoise, the reflection from the Fresnel
zone (a few wavelengths) will be poor because igneous rock is a very,
very poor ground!
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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