Topband: trimming elevated radials

Tom W8JI w8ji at w8ji.com
Mon Apr 1 12:35:45 EDT 2013


> I wouldn't attempt to tune the radials exactly to resonance, because that 
> will be most difficult to achieve due to a number of reasons... the worst 
> that may happen is that just one radial is exactly resonant, as it will 
> take (almost) all the return current and diminish the effect of 
> (horizontal) cancellation... make them all a little longer (or shorter) 
> and tune the radiator for resonance...


My models do not seem to show any special advantage to doing that. If they 
are not symmetrical, current still seems to get uneven.

Is there data somewhere that shows it promotes balanced currents? 



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