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Re: Topband: Ground Radials Yet Again

To: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Ground Radials Yet Again
From: "Ian Keyser" <ian.keyser@btopenworld.com>
Reply-to: Ian Keyser <ian.keyser@btopenworld.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:49:04 +0100
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> Specifically, wire laid atop the ground may be considered to have a 
> velocity factor of 50%...which means, of course, that any 1/4-wave 
> (physically long) radials that I meticulously laid-out beneath my inverted 
> "L" last year were, in fact, 1/2-wave (electrically long) radials...



Wow, that explains a funny effect I was getting the other day on 20m when 
experimenting with a ground plane!!!


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