[TenTec] vertical radials

[Jim Brown]

>so, what's the best way to go with the radials?

There are some excellent tech articles on this topic on the ARRL website. I strongly 
suggest that you read them.

The executive summary is that 1) the more radials the better;  2) the longer the radials 
are the better;  3) given the same total length of wire in the ground, having more 
radials closer to the tower is more important than having longer radials; 4) by the time 
you hit 60 or more radials that a quarter wave or so, you're probably within 3 dB of the 
best it's gonna get; 5) virtually all of the modeling assumes homogeneous ground, and 
real ground isn't homogenous. 

Jim Brown  K9YC