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Subject: [TowerTalk] Vertical?
From: w2up@itw.com (Barry Kutner)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:14:33 +0000
On 12 Jun 98, Tom Rauch <w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com> wrote:

> 
> > I don't think radials will help the Gap because it's a vertical dipole.
> > 73, Dick, WC1M
> 
> 
> Radials help any ground mounted or near-ground vertical, the more the 
> better.
> 
> Radials do two jobs:
> 
> 1.) They give some antenna designs something to "push" 
> against, so current can be forced up in the element. The sum of 
> currents flowing up in the radiator MUST equal the sum of currents 
> flowing out (or in) at the ground connection point.
> 
> 2.) Radials divorce or "shield" the fields near the antenna (both 
> induction fields and the radiation field) from lossy ground around 
> the antenna.
> 
> Some neat things to remember:
> 
> A vertical dipole will eliminate problem one, but not problem two 
> above. The only way to substantially eliminate problem two is with 
> height (more than 1/2 wl at the antenna base typically), or a darned 
> good counterpoise (typically one with wire spacing less than .025 to 
> .05 wl maximum at the wire ends, and wires 1/4 to 1/2 wl long).
> 
(snip)

I asked Roger Cox of Hygain whether putting radials under a DX-77 
vertical (also a vertical dipole) would be of any benefit. He said NO.
73 Barry
--
Barry Kutner, W2UP                            Internet: w2up@itw.com
Newtown, PA                                   Frankford Radio Club

                                           

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