[TenTec] Radial Research

[Steve Hunt]

Yes, vertically polarized signals also undergo ground reflections; 
however the reflection coefficient magnitude and phase are very 
different to those of a horizontally polarized signal, which is why the 
horizontally polarized signal picks up more "reflection gain"

My reading of all the papers is that 4 *very accurately tuned radials 
away from perturbations* can be as effective as many ground radials; but 
now try to achieve that for a multiband vertical. Seems to me that 
ground radials are much more "forgiving".

Steve G3TXQ

On 19/05/2012 21:48, Richards wrote:
> Verticals are sometimes claimed to not have ground reflections in the 
> near field (as Billy C suggests in his post), but I thought there ARE 
> ground reflections - at least in the far field ... something having to 
> do with the Pseudo Brewster Angle...