Topband: Top loaded antenna and Radials.

[Tom Rauch]

> I remember reading somewhere that if you have a top loaded 
> antenna, it is not "necessary" to install
> radials that is longer than the vertical part of the 
> antenna.
> You don't win much on the efficiency when you make them 
> longer than the vertical part of antenna.
> Is this true????.

No. It is definitely not true at all. It is an old myth.

In nearly all cases the short vertical actually requires 
longer radials and more of them to have maximum efficiency.

73 Tom