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[Towertalk] Can my 40' tower be a 160m vertical?

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Subject: [Towertalk] Can my 40' tower be a 160m vertical?
From: ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE)
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:51:33 -0700
At 04:59 PM 2002-09-26 -0600, n4kg@juno.com wrote:
>YES.  IF you can get 1/4 WL (or more) then 30 to 60 radials is
>beneficial.  IF you are limited to 1/8 WL long radials, there is
>virtually NO benefit above 15 radials.
>
>Tom  N4KG
OK then please explain why hy-gain in their manual for the 14AVQ has a 
table for optimum ground system configurations as
radials                                16     24      36     60    90    120
lengthin wl                          0.1   0.125  0.15  0.2   0,25  0.4
feed point impedance        52     46      43     40      37    35
radial ends buried (?)          Y     Y         Y      N       N      N

Which to me states, if longer radials, then need more, impedance goes down 
and power goes up or if more radials need more etc.

Just trying to figure out these things.

Chris opr VE7HCB



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