TopBand: RESPONSES: Radials for shunt fed tower

[George Guerin]

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     Hi Chris, et al.
     
     It sounds like you are off and running.  If you have a basement, I 
     would consider running radials through the house stapled to the floor 
     joists.
     
     On of the locals has a basement with ceiling tile over most of the 
     area.  He inserted bare wire between the ceiling tile joints and tied 
     them all together with a "buss bar" on the wall nearest the shunt fed 
     tower, and ran about 4 wires through basement window frames to tie the 
     inside wires to the radial system.
     
     Another ham I knew had a "suspended ceiling" with metal grid and lay 
     in acoustical tiles.  He took the tiles out and bonded the grid 
     elements to each other.  Then he tied the whole thing to a tower maybe 
     20 feet outside the house with some "short radials" and reset the 
     ceiling tiles.
     
     Good luck,         George  K8GG
     
     
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Subject: TopBand: RESPONSES: Radials for shunt fed tower
Author:  "Chris Allingham" <chrisal@nortel.ca> at BC_INTERNET 
Date:    10/21/97 9:22 AM
     
     
Hi,
     
I received 10 responses regarding the lengths and type of radials I 
should use for my 80/160 shunt fed tower.  I ended up not using chicken 
wire and using as  much wire I could find in the junk box, ran random 
lengths all around the backyard, and even around the house into the 
front yard.
     
Many thanks to the following for responding to my question: W5PS, W1JCC, 
KI0G, K1HTV, W4WH, K6SE, KF4HK, N6DX, K1ZG, and K1FK.
     
If anyone would like a copy of all the responses I received, e-mail me 
directly and I'll put them together and e-mail them to you.
     
73,
     
Chris VE3FU / VO2AC
     
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