Wayne,
What radial did you use on 40m for the 50ft random wire? 33ft, 33ft
shortened for ground coupling, or random length?
Background: I have tried using your recommendation of 28ft for the
center conductor and band-switching with 16, 24, or 33 ft on the ground
for the radial. Bonnie KQ6XA recomends a radial 10-15% shorter than 1/4
lamda if it is not elevated, but I found 1.2:1 with the ATU, and don't
have the RF Ammeter (or light bulb) that K6ACJ Bill used to verify those
length recommendations.
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:18am, wayne burdick wrote:
My big takeaway from the weekend is that a longer, partly-horizontal
random wire is more effective than 25' of wire straight up, at least
for 40 m daytime operation. With the vertical wire, I missed some
contacts. On Sunday I put up 50' of wire, of which over half was
horizontal, and had much better luck on 40.
73,
WA5ZNU Leigh
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