After trying buried radials, surface radials and elevated radials with my
inverted L, I finally put up an FCP a few days ago. The difference is amazing
and I reckon my signal into NA has gone up by 4-6 dB. As I only have a fairly
small tree available the vertical section of the antenna only goes up to around
45 feet. The FCP is about 4 feet above ground at the moment so I will raise it
a bit more as I think 8ft is the recommended height.
Richard
G3OQT
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