Topband: Radial plate

[Brian Pease]

I have a DX Engineering radial plate bolted to the tilt-over base of my 
aluminum tower.  It is very nice, and I use the coax cable feature to 
ground my feedline.

It is really overkill for your purpose.  I would crimp *_and solder 
_*ring terminals onto each radial, with perhaps 1/4" holes.  I would 
then stack them on a long 1/4-20 Stainless hex head bolt along with the 
wire to run up the pole, then seriously tighten the bolt.  Trivial cost 
& easier to do.

On 6/27/2018 9:08 AM, N2TK, Tony wrote:
> Planning on changing from elevated radials to ground mounted radials for my
> 80 M 4-sq. After twice having to rebuild the elevated radials this past
> winter from the snow/ice storms it is time to go to the ground. I plan on
> having the feedpoints on 4x4 posts with the feedpoints 3’ up from the ground
> so they don’t get snow covered often.
>
> Looking at the DXEngineering Radial plates. It looks like an easy way to tie
> the radials together on the ground then run a ground wire up to a box at the
> feedpoint. Any comments or issues with using these radial plates?
>
>   
>
> Also going to use buried feedlines – RG6, ¾ wave with 8 turns through #31
> big clamp-on core at the feedpoint.
>
> 73,
>
> N2TK, Tony
>
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