Topband: elevated radials

[Mike Furrey]

I took a page out of ON4UN's book for four elevated radials. In the 4th edition of his "Low-Band DXing," page 9-25, figure 9-23, I used the left diagram. After I resonated the system, my best SWR was about 2.5 and I fixed that by adding a "hair pin" match. The length of my radials was 81' and were up about 15'. This worked quite well for me.

Unfortunately that antenna is in a box since I am currently (temporarily) in a house on a 1/5 acre lot with an 1/8 wavelength wire vertical to a tree limb and a single 1/8 wavelength elevated radial. Ugh. BUT I am on the air. Just can't hear in this very old neighborhood until I get some kind of RX antenna built.
73, Mike WA5POK




    On Saturday, October 20, 2018 9:45 PM, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:
 

 I am contemplating 4 elevated radials for a 160-meter inverted L.  Am I 
correct to think that I need to resonate each pair of radials in their 
final location as if they were a very low dipole?

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73, Pete N4ZR
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