Topband: Beverages over Radials

[Richard Karlquist]

> 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>

Last year, I followed the directions on Tom's web site
and built some receiving arrays.  They worked just
like he said they would and were equal to better than my 500 ft beverages.
I
should mention that I have fairly high ground conductivity,
so my beverages don't work all that well.  My long term
plan is to replace the beverages with small verticals.
I think Tom says he has already done this.
I can highly recommend this site.  Besides the antenna pages,
read the stuff about hybrid combiners to make the phasing network.

Rick N6RK