Topband: Beverages over Radials

[Pete Smith]

At 10:27 AM 1/7/04 +0000, Clive GM3POI wrote:
>I'm thinking of a summer time makeover of all my 11 Rx antennas So I
>will try for  the best layout possible to minimise the effect of 5 acres of
>radials.


Have you considered a receiving 4-square or larger vertical array, to turn 
all those radials from a potential drawback to an advantage?  W8JI has a 
lot of good info about how to do this with top-loaded small verticals on 
his web page, as well as figures of merit for a wide variety of  possible 
receiving antenna designs.   <www.w8ji.com>


73, Pete N4ZR
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