Topband: Elevated Radials Questions

Chortek, Robert L Robert.Chortek at berliner.com
Thu Dec 13 20:44:25 EST 2012


Not to hijack the thread, but anyone have a general idea how much improvement one would get by going from 8 to 12 gull wing resonant elevated radials on  a 60 foot base loaded vertical?

73,

Bob AA6VB
> 
> N7LF's work also shows that more elevated radials are better than
> fewer.  Since the losses are a function of the square of the field
> intensity, spreading the E field more evenly over a larger area
> reduces losses by decreasing the peak field intensity.



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