Topband: Topband Radial Question

[Charlie Cunningham]

Thanks so much for that information, Paul!!

 

Have a good evening!

 

73,

Charlie,K4OTV

 

From: Paul Staupe [mailto:staupe at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 7:09 PM
To: topband; charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com
Subject: RE: Topband Radial Question

 

Charlie,

The article is:

"Using elevated radials in conjunction with deteriorated buried-radial
ground systems"
Christman, A. ; Zeineddin, R.P. ; Radcliff, R. ; Breakall, J.
Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 39 , Issue: 2
Publication Year: 1993 , Page(s): 249 - 254 

Al Christman K3LC has written many articles  on this subject over the years,
in QST, QEX etc.
Also lots K3LC info in On4UN's "Low Band DXing."

73,

Paul WØAD
Minneapolis


From: "Charlie Cunningham" <charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com>
To: "'Bill Stewart'" <cwopr at embarqmail.com>
Cc: topband at contesting.com, 'Robert L Chortek'
        <Robert.Chortek at berliner.com>



Well, I'm not surprised at all, Bill! Some years back some broadcast
engineers did a lot of work replacing deteriorated buried radial fields
under broadcast towers with elevated resonant radials. They concluded that 4
elevated radials would do the job quite well. Their work was published in
some IEEE transactions, and was based on real  engineering measurements!

Your inverted L with 4 elevated resonant radial should do quite well!

73,
Charlie, K4OTV