Doug,
I am using a Butternut HF2V vertical on 80 and 40 meters. The HF2V is a
base loaded ground mounted antenna. The HF2V is sitting atop 24 radials
separated 15 degrees apart from each other. Half of the radials are 66
feet long; the remaining 12 radials are each 32 feet long.
I used a
Hi Doug,
The single best source of information on radials that I have found is that
published by Rudy, N6LF. Here is a link:
http://www.antennasbyn6lf.com/design_of_radial_ground_systems
Scroll down the page and check out the seven part article that he published
in QEX magazine and the six
Here is your definitive work on verticals and radials...
http://www.antennasbyn6lf.com/
I visited his home a few months ago. He currently has 6, (they look to
be 125 to 150 feet tall), verticals up for testing, and 640 work.
If you look in the archives on the right of his page, you will
Wow... Great minds think alike... I just got your email on Rudy... :)
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Most people would think we're well into Summer. Not here in the High
Rockies. Summer here has just begun. Time to mend some fences. Now
the point: I just pulled about a mile of #11 soft drawn aluminum wire -
mostly in 50' to 100' lengths. Normally its electrified and the cattle
won't
HI Doug:
I assume you are talking about a vertical mounted on the ground. If
so, you might want to consider extending it a bit to 43 feet.. some
feel that length works well on bands from 80 through 10 meters. I'f
not ever done that, so I don't know.
But I have used base loaded
On 6/29/2014 12:07 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft wrote:
So now I have all this aluminum wire that I would hate to throw away. So
I'm thinking of making a really good ground plane and putting up a
vertical of some kind. I have enough scrap tubing to make about 38' or
so. I was thinking of
There is a lot of work on number and length of radials. You can get a good
ground with anything from 16 1/4 wave radials to 120 1/10 wave radials buried.
Elevated 1/4 wave radials work well with only 2, though 4 is nice.
The experiments on this are either in the ARRL Antenna Book or the ON4UN
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