Re: Topband: Anyone purchased the ARRL book on Short Antennas for160???

[Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>]

The real key is "symmetrical", according to the stuff I re-read earlier
today by Rudy, N6LF and K9YC.

Mine aren't symmetrical. The N radial is straight; but the S radial has to
zig-zag, because I'm too close the neighbor's pasture fence. The current is
almost certainly different on each radial.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Charlie Cunningham <
charlie-cunningham@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Well, I've worked a lot of good stuff all over the world on 160 with an
> inverted L with two elevated radials - because that's what I had room for.
> If you get up to 4 symmetrical elevated radials there's not much to be
> gained by adding more.
>
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