> And please don't forget that elevated radials will be resonant. Gotta be
> cut to your desired operating frequency or they will really upset
> the tuning
> of the vertical. I would expect that at least a pair of radials for each
> band will work.
>
If I have a pair of radials resonant to 21MHz and their ends are to the
north and south, will there by any directional effects on that band? n/s,
e/w ???
I've never seriously played with verticals to find out.
But...
When I was a kid living in Whittier, CA, I had a roof-mounted 14avq with the
requisite pair of radials cut for each band. The radials were strung out
the length of our house roof -- North-South. I'm sure the years have
obscured/warped my perception of what I may have experienced, but it seems
like I worked a truckload more stations in the pacific NW/VE7/KL7/JA/UA than
to the east and west. So, are there directional effects by the placement of
a pair of radials? Or did I just imagine it?
73,
dale, kg5u
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