Hi, Joe I didn't have time to write you earlier. It was obvious that you had a lot of ground loss in series with the radiation resistance of the inverted-L that was swamping the reactance variation of the inverted L. You are likely to be very pleasantly surprised at how effective two elevated resonant radials at 5-6' can be! I did that for years - worked JA, VKs, VK6, JT1, S79,many deep European and Russians, lots of, LOTs of Pacific and DXpeditons etc.. Of course you can also lay out some more radials from your feed-point! Good luck! Have fun! The taller vertical section will help a lot! Mine was about 75 feet!
73, Charlie, K4OTV -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Joe Galicic Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 2:12 PM To: Mike Waters Cc: List, TopBand Subject: Re: Topband: Broadband Inverted L Thanks everyone ! Interesting. I knew something was not quite right. I thought I could "tap" into the existing ground system but obviously that is not going to be the case. I could manage two elevated radials pretty easily but not at 10 ten feet. More like 6 feet off the ground mounted on my 6 foot high wooden privacy fence. Can I lay down radials more over top of the old ones? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Waters" <mikew...@gmail.com> To: "List, TopBand" <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:23:32 PM Subject: Re: Topband: Broadband Inverted L Have you considered elevated radials? Four of them 10' high (or even two!) would be MUCH better than what you have right now. My 160m Inverted-L: http://www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html#inv-l_antenna 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband