I used to have a station on a 1 ac point of land in salt water. I shunt fed a
130 foot tower with some beams on it. I took the radials to the salt water and
terminated them to old aluminum from destroyed beams which I pushed down into
the salt water. About 16 radials worked unbelievably well on 160! I also tried
a ground plane for 80 on a 40 foot tower, with two radials...that also worked
very well. Almost anything will work well on 160 if it is near salt water.
Chuck, W5PR
K3BU@aol.com wrote:
> Talking about radials.
> Has anyone done some real life tests and comparison between few radials
> (2,4,8) and many (60, 120) when over salt water or marsh (or soaked salty
> beach)?
> The point of question is: does the salt water ground (close to perfect)
> reduce the losses in return currents to the point where few radials are
> sufficient?
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