TopBand: GP vs. Vertical

[Art Charette]

Bill
I don't know if it will work "better" with more radials. Not going to try
for more than 6, which I'll roll out next season.

The feed impedance altered !microscopically! with the change from 3 to 4 -
barely visible, no change to tuning settings - so I infer that the
performance changed in a similar way.

What is better, anyway? Is it worth 120 buried radials plus maintenance for
that last bit? Well, yes, if that's the goal. My goal is to have a pretty
good signal on all 9 bands, as good as I can reasonably get. I could do
better with unreasonable effort.

The full 3/8 wave does, indeed, make it easier.

73 Art

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hohnstein [mailto:k0ha@navix.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 1998 7:08 AM
> To: Art Charette
> Subject: Re: TopBand: GP vs. Vertical
>
>
> Hi Art,
>
> > Using ON4UN's estimator for the effects of top loading I calculate
> > that the tower, from 32 ft up, is 3/8 wave high on 160.
>
>   An inefficient (unfounded assumption) 3/8 wavelength vertical SHOULD
> work  better than the majority of the antennas used by your neighbors.
> The proper questions are:
>
>     #1  Will the antenna work better yet with added radials?  (I
>           believe that it will)
>     #2  Will the improvement with added radials be enough to merit
>           the trouble?  (That is an individual question that I can
>           only answer for myself [I have a large amount of radial
>           wire buried around my verticals])
>
> 73,  Bill     K0HA
>


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