I beg to differ on the High Maintenance possibility. I live in Southwest Wisconsin the Deer hunting capital of maybe the world. There are deer in my yard every day. We have wind storms, We have Ice s
Milt Jensen, N5IA (SK) constructed his original (circa 1990s) 160M station TX antenna based on a similar design I encouraged him use. He built a 180 ft tower with an insulator at 50 ft, Four elevated
There is a huge ground loss for 4ft high radials on 160m. 7ft is far better and 10 ft is pretty good. When I first installed radials this low, there was, indeed, high ground loss. N6BT, an excellent
Grant and Joel, Thanks for the feedback. I have a stockpile of wire that's not doing me any good sitting in my garage, so it sounds to me like probably the best thing is to add some more on-ground ra
The antenna becomes a ground mounted vertical having elevated feed. The wire from the ground radial system to the base of the vertical becomes a radiating portion of the vertical. The vertical has in
Hello Gang, This is somewhat related to the "Will radials on ground help?" thread. I have poked around in various discussion groups but haven't found a specific answer. Assuming I have a fairly decen
You save me a lot of writing. This is my thought experiment. Just another point or two. 1) the more radials there are the lower the current in each. With enough radials, the currents are milliamps
I of course defer to Frank's expertise here. But after thinking about this for a couple of hours, I'm trying to wrap my head around this arc risk concept as well. It's interesting and I toss this c
I haven?t experimented on top band but I have tried elevated radials on 80M ¼ verticals. I had one in Houston Texas that worked wonderfully ? elevated 8 radials at about 10 ft. Ground conductivity in
John touche !...for clarification, 65' high ( at top), Supported by 70' tall hickory trees. Radials are 90' long (5' off the ground) 8^). lot is 200x270 ( just shy of 1.25 acres) With non resonant,
Peter when testing listening to various stations you should be mindful as to the likely incoming wave angle. I.e do not expect a very good F/B ration if the station is not low angle. Try it and see b
Pete, I added 4 radials and a 4' ground rod like you did. I am not sure if adding more will help, but I am pretty sure it could not hurt, so it might be an easy test. Another thing I did which seemed
Hi Pete, *Ideally*, the current on each radial should be equal. In the searchable archives at http://www.contesting.com/_topband this has been discussed at length, and in a number of threads. There a
Once a driveway was in the way of radials ... a cement blade on a circular saw fixed that. That may work FB on soft sandstone. 73, Mike WA5POK Chet, Have you tried digging a shallow trench with an ed
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Now that I have both a HI-Z circle 8 & a triangular array, along with the K3s, I can hear most stations coming in around here. About the only thing that will help me Rx wise at this time would be a b
Re: Topband: Radials question Hey Gang, Thank you for the comments and I been re-reading them and learning. This will be a fun late summer or early fall project. Thanks! Mike n0 odk 73 ______________
Hi Matt, We can not ever have enough radials, especially with a less than a 1/4 wave vertical. Shorter antennas can get competitive if enough radials are used. Recommend solid wire because oxid
Rick, I used to work on AM broadcast systems -- used both Stay Brite 3% with a propane torch, and 15% silver-bearing brazing rod with a small welding torch. As far as I could tell, both worked well e
The famous Brown et al. paper from 1937 on buried radialsground losses -- a brief summary Thanks to TB posts and R. Fry, I have been tempted down a path to ancient paper analysis. The essential resu