Well, I've worked a lot of good stuff all over the world on 160 with an inverted L with two elevated radials - because that's what I had room for. If you get up to 4 symmetrical elevated radials there's not much to be gained by adding more. There's been a lot of work done in the broadcast industry using elevated radials to replace deteriorated buried radial fields that shows that pretty clearly. It was published in some IEEE transactions some years ago.
73, Charlie, K4OTV -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike Waters Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:28 PM To: topband List Subject: Re: Topband: Anyone purchased the ARRL book on Short Antennas for160??? The only real way to tell is have one of each, and do many instant A-B comparisons over a period of time. I just have two 10'+ high elevated radials on my bottom-fed L. It seems to work "well", but I should add more radials this summer. And that's what I'll probably do before I ever build one of those. http://www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html#inv-l_antenna 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Gary and Kathleen Pearse <pea...@gci.net>wrote: > I've built them for 40 and 80 via his modeling years ago. Fed both up > high, and both down low. High feed 'seemed better', but no real way to > tell. Worked a RU station on 80 from KL7 so they do emit a signal. It > was a good aerial, easy to build, with some vertical component to the pattern. > > On 160 it may take some bending. Fed low it's a vert with an elevated > radial. Two would be better, but then so would four and so on. > > 73, Gary NL7Y > > > Wouldn't feeding it up high in the corner like that at least > > eliminate > the > > need for radials? > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband