As a practical application, the "Battle Creek Special" is configured with
shortened radicals; 30 X 60' for mni years now. It's success is well known.
We found, that when 1/4 wvl radials were furnished, DXpeditions often did not
have space for deployment. And used only a few of the radials
In my case I have lots of space and I can lay down radials or do elevated.
My vertical part is about 85ft and the rest is horizontal. It has served
me well enough, but I honestly thing it could do much better and that is
why I ask.
My problem is I don't know how on this list truly knows what
Elevated radials can also be run zigzag to fit them in the available space.
My 1/4 wavelength S radial was like that.
73, Mike
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Jeez Carl,
If you had read my write-up, you would realize that I NEVER recommended
2 radials for operatingjust as a simple technique to measure
resonant radial length in one's soil
Also, the point is NOT that everyone should use shortened radials. The
point IS that for hams with the
No need to do it on my account.
On 10/26/2017 6:31 AM, k8...@alphacomm.net wrote:
This issue does indeed keep coming up, so I am posting my response (of 3
years ago) again for K7EG, N7WS, VA3MVW, W0MU, and others.
N7WS
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Thanks,
I need to digest this.
mike va3mw
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:31 AM, k8...@alphacomm.net
wrote:
> This issue does indeed keep coming up, so I am posting my response (of 3
> years ago) again for K7EG, N7WS, VA3MVW, W0MU, and others. The shortened
> radials are still
This issue does indeed keep coming up, so I am posting my response (of
3 years ago) again for K7EG, N7WS, VA3MVW, W0MU, and others. The
shortened radials are still in use here, with 235 countries worked on
160. The Vp shortening depends entirely on soil type, so math will only
get you so