Topband: Elevated Radials on Grounded Tower?

[Tom W8JI]

> I'm putting together a presentation which I think I'm going to call 
> "Working 160M with limited antennas," or something like that. I've studied 
> as much of the literature as I can find, including extensive work by 
> W2FMI,  K3LC, N6LF, W8JI, and K2AV. My intent is to distill it to the 
> point that it isn't overwhelming and come up with some relatively simple 
> guidelines that guys can use to get on the air and have fun.


That's a good idea. I wanted to run sensitivity tests of a few basic 
antennas to radial and counterpoise system changes, and eventually build an 
antenna or two.

I'm so far behind on work I don't know when I will be able to do that.

Whatever we do, I hope we all caution people models are models and can vary 
from life, and that empirical reports should be taken with a grain of salt.

There is a U-tube video right now of a helical wound small loop antenna that 
has 10 dB gain over a perfect zero-loss  loop, and the CFA antenna and E-H 
antennas were "verified and supported" by many positive field reports even 
though they are absolute hoaxes.

I think a good article would be how to compare antennas with minimal effort 
and test equipment.

73 Tom