Update:
I didn't see my message appear on either reflector, so with only a couple
hours of daylight of good sun (and wx this week looking bleak), I rolled the
dice and went out an shortened each raised radial by 4.5'(by folding back
the wire onto itself) and physically cut the vertical portion by
Today I installed 160m vertical #2 in what will soon become a Comtek PVS-2
(2el BS/EF) array for 160m. (vy recently I installed 3 Comtek (wire)
4-squares for 20, 40 &80m.
Spacing is about 134 for these two 1/4wl 160m antennas. (oriented
NNE/SSW-best I could do, given the property here)
With