Fifty feet?! That means the feedpoint --the bottom of the antenna-- would be 50 feet up! Do you know how high the top would have to be? I don't agree with that at all. And I've never heard of anyone who ever did that.
The four elevated radials in these tests were just 16 feet high! And what is more, the frequencies were 1490, 1450, 1240, and (maybe) 625 KHz. Almost as effective as 120 buried radials. lists.contesting.com/_topband/2007-11/msg00248.html I forget the radial height in Rudy Severns' (N6LF) tests, but IIRC they weren't anywhere near 50' high. My two elevated radials were 10' high. I know that a little higher (and a few more of them) would have been better, but I can tell you that that 160m inverted-L WORKED! And I'm by no means the only one. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Rob Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > The rule of thumb for effective elevated radial height is 1/10 wavelength, > so on 160, around 50 feet up. > > 73 > > Rob > K5UJ > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
