Hello Iain, You heard correctly! My inverted-L with 2 elevated radial had no ground rods except on one terminal of a spark-gap lightning arrester. Description and photos at www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html (scroll down). You *must* also have an effective common-mode feedline choke near the feedpoint.
73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 4:02 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In my limited garden I can get away with an 17 high inverted-L with 2 very > bent elevated radials and very odd angles. One of them in the farmers > field. > > It has certainly got me out but I have been told if I sick some copper rods > down at the base and connect to the radials (coax shield and radials) this > is not going to be beneficial. > > This seems counter-intuitive. > > Before I get digging (cos I got to try it anyway and take some analyser > readings) can anyone comment on this? > > Iain G4SGX > > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
