Topband: Hindering factors in the science of back yard 160mvertical ins

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fry" <rfry at adams.net>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 5:41 AM
Subject: Topband: Hindering factors in the science of back yard 160mvertical 
ins


Guy Olinger wrote:
>Hams have suffered in the confined circumstances by attempting various
>minimalist extrapolations of commercial radial methodology. The rub is
>that commercial grade research was never done on non-dense,
>non-uniform solutions.

That isn't exactly correct, Guy.

The 1937 real-world experiments of Brown, Lewis & Epstein of RCA Labs
includes measured data for sets of of radials varying in number from 2 to
113, and in length from 0.137 to 0.412 lambda.  The paper at
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h85/rfry-100/BLandERadials.gif shows the
results for the longer two sets.


** So where is the rest of the data that would be of more interest to the 
average ham?

Carl
KM1H