RE elevated radials needing to be a significant fraction of lambda above
ground: Suggest you read Les Moxon's book "HF Antennas for all locations" for
a discussion of this...
I tend to avoid the battles about elevated radials becasue what I see is mostly
religious fervor, not empirical results... I will comment that I was one of the
few stations to work Heard Island on 160 from the northern tier of the USA, mid
Michigan... This was done with 8 elevated radials, head high, and a leaning
vertical... A later discussion with the ops was that my signal was Q5 in the
midst of a general broken buzzing of unreadable calls from other stations...
Just luck, or the elevated radials?
denny / k8do
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