At 10:25 AM 1/11/01 -0500, Tom Rauch wrote:
>Hi Tom and all,
>
>I would absolutely series feed the antenna with a large number of
>radials on each element. Either buried, on the ground, or in the air
>radials are fine as long as you have at least 30 on each vertical.
>
>My 160 meter "four-square" (using 115/230 degree phase shift) has
>60 shallow buried radials, and it actually measures over 6 dB up
>from a 200 foot tower with 100 200 foot radials.
I presume that these field strength readings are made on the ground at a
number of wavelengths from the array. How is the relevance of these
measurements affected by their being made at ground level -- presumably a
fractional degree of elevation? Isn't this the same problem that people
(including me) had with the K7LXC/N0AX tribander tests?
73, Pete N4ZR
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