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 verticals in years past. Some have said
for a ground mounted vertical, you need at least 16 radials. If you
can make them as long as the vertical, that'd good, but even half that
size is good. More radials is better. And length is not critical..
so you can just use whatever sizes you have.
If you "elevate" the radials... then length is critical, and you would
want four radials every 90ยบ for each band of interest.
Glad to hear you want to put that AL wire to good use. :)
73 de Ray
K2ULR
On Jun 29, 2014, at 3:07 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft wrote:
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 touch it. But last year the
charger died and the cattle just shredded the wire to get into my
grassy meadow.
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 putting a remote tuner at
the base of the vertical as the length of coax to reach it will
probably be at least 150'.
So I'd be interested in comments on how to configure the radials in
terms of length and number. I know there's some guys on this
reflector that real know a lot about this sort of thing.
Thanks & 73,
Doug -- K0DXV
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