Topband: raised radials

[Carl]

You ever wonder why a few on here are so much louder than their competition 
with similar installations when 1-2 keep trying to make us believe it has 
nothing to do with the radials beyond a small number? IF he is correct then 
why the big difference? Anybody care to offer a guess?

Or the fellow on a city lot that knows he is 10dB below the guy a mile away 
out in the country with a big vertical or T with lots of long radials plus a 
base mesh....after several years of comparisons. You dont need fancy test 
equipment to see that.

Ever wonder why photos of elevated radial BC antennas show a base mesh and a 
small number of radials? And then performance tests require a reduction in 
power to conform to the canned 120 radials in the ground benchmark signal 
strength. Or due to the stations original certification with a full set of 
base radials that rotted away and the elevated are the replacements.

Or the person on here who went from an extensive radial system to a full 
screen claimed a 5dB improvement but now denys the possibility. Its in the 
TB archives from 1998.

A few seem to be in a continuous rut with impedance the only factor they 
seem to mention. There is a lot more than just the immediate soil under the 
radials that is involved when it comes to field strength many wavelengths or 
continents away which also affects the energy in a particular elevation 
angle.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-> Hee!  :- )
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> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 7:12 PM
> To: DAVID CUTHBERT; Carl
> Cc: David Michael Gaytko // WD4KPD; topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: 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.
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> Things are often magic when we rely on feelings or emotions to measure
> decibels.
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