James;
Just out of Curiosity, how did you elevate the radials?
Ken
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 15:48 -0500, James Setzler wrote:
> Greetings,
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> I've a Butternut HF2V that used to be elevated with the feedpoint at 10 ft.
> and 2 tuned radials each on 40m and 80m also at 10 ft. I was satisfied with
> it; it seemed to hear well enough and I often got good signal reports on
> 40m. During reconstruction I moved it to ground mounted with 12 radials
> each 10 to 33 ft. long; it's not getting many more. I also installed a 40m
> inverted V with the feedpoint at 65 ft.
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> The ground mounted HF2V seems to be worse that the elevated vertical was.
> The elevated vertical often got good signal reports; the ground mounted
> never. The dipole always beats the vertical, listening and transmitting.
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> Anyone else have experience with the HF2V mounted up using elevated radials
> versus ground mounted with limited on-ground radials.
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> 73 James K1SD
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