Hi Doug, The single best source of information on radials that I have found is that published by Rudy, N6LF. Here is a link:
http://www.antennasbyn6lf.com/design_of_radial_ground_systems Scroll down the page and check out the seven part article that he published in QEX magazine and the six radial experiments that he conducted. It’s wonderful stuff. 73, Mike K2MK Elecraft mailing list 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 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Radials-for-vertical-tp7590705p7590725.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
