Topband: insulated vs:bare radial wires

[Julius Fazekas]

Hi Goose,

Think this holds true if you lay down a hundred or more, but is not the case if you install fewer based on more recent research...

30000 feet will be loads of fun to lay hihi

73 & GL in ARRL160!
Julius

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> Just make them as long as you can (not to
> exceed 0.4  wavelengths) 
> and you are done.  The 0.4 wavelength number comes
> from  research done many 
> years ago and published in the Proceedings of the
> IRE.   It shows that the 
> amount of radiation efficiency that you gain by going
> longer  than 0.4 
> wavelengths is not worth the trouble.