Topband: raised radials

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That is quite an improvement. I had to have dropped the base impedance from
400 ohms to 40 ohms for it to do that.

    Dave WX7G

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Carl <km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:

> A ground screen mesh extending out at least 25' from the base would
> reduces losses considerably since just 10-20 radials has little effect.
> At a prior QTH, going from 100 radials of 60-130' to spokes of 4' x 50'
> rabbit wire mesh on top of them made the difference between also ran and
> pileup busting on 160. Id call that at least 10dB in anybodys book.
>
> My soil was like beach sand altho 20 miles from the ocean; likely leftover
> from the iceage roll back.
>
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> Subject: Topband: raised radials
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>
>  the more i read, it seems raised radials are a fairly easy way to raise
>> the effeciancy of a short vertical.
>>
>> i have a hy-gain 18ht with base loading.  can i use these raised radials
>> with this antenna, and if so how to do it.  it is impossible to raise the
>> whole antenna to get the base off the ground.
>>
>> david/wd4kpd
>>
>>
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