Topband: radial layout and pattern skew

[Tony Reynolds]

Hi All,
Sorry if this has been beat to death, but I searched the archives under
radials and pattern and thousands of articles turned up at once. Way to
course of a search.

I'm working on my ground system on 160 and I'm limited by dense woods to the
north of me making radial placement almost impossible in that direction.
Modeling this in EZNEC 3 with the radials 3" off the ground shows pattern
skewing of -2 to -3db in the direction of no radials. Which would kind of
make since. Then I found this web site:
http://www.amfone.net/ECSound/K1JJ16.htm
in which item one states that this doesn't happen. Is this the case, and if
so, is the skewing from wires being to close to the ground in EZNEC?

Thanks,
Tony
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