Hello Iain,
You heard correctly! My inverted-L with 2 elevated radial had no ground
rods except on one terminal of a spark-gap lightning arrester. Description
and photos at
www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html (scroll down). You *must* also have an
effective common-mode feedline choke near the feedpoint.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 4:02 PM <g4sgx@justfans.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my limited garden I can get away with an 17 high inverted-L with 2 very
> bent elevated radials and very odd angles. One of them in the farmers
> field.
>
> It has certainly got me out but I have been told if I sick some copper rods
> down at the base and connect to the radials (coax shield and radials) this
> is not going to be beneficial.
>
> This seems counter-intuitive.
>
> Before I get digging (cos I got to try it anyway and take some analyser
> readings) can anyone comment on this?
>
> Iain G4SGX
>
>
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