Topband: Radial plate

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Hi Tony, 


Your proposed configuration will work fine. Your three foot wire 
is actually part of your vertical. You're vertical will need to be 
shortened a few feet to achieve resonance. 


While its very important to use a common mode choke with 
elevated radials, its completely unnecessary when you use radials 
laid on the ground or slightly buried except in the case of a sparse 
radial field which I'm sure will not be the case at N2TK, 


Good luck, you'll like your results! Its well worth the effort. 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 




----- Original Message -----

From: "Tony N2TK" <tony.kaz at verizon.net> 
To: topband at contesting.com 
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 1:08:49 PM 
Subject: Topband: Radial plate 

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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