Topband: Elevated radial number vs efficiency

[Wayne Kline]

My experience was not on top band BUT on a 80 meter 4 sq. initially I installed  4 gullwing elevated tuned radials for each of the 4 elements.
The array played will but over time it became quit clear on wet rain or even dew conditions  the array  played much better in transmit and not as much obvious in recive.  This prompted me to strip and install 112 ¼ wave radials per element.


Wayne ,W3EA
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From: Mike Waters<mailto:mikewate at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 1, 2021 4:55 PM
To: topband at contesting.com<mailto:topband at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Elevated radial number vs efficiency

Thanks for catching that, Dave!

I certanly can't argue with Rudy N6LF, but those two λ/4 10' high elevated
radials in my old 160m page made that inverted-L a "killer"* in an ARRL 160
contest about 10 years ago. That was using only 100 watts. Broke a number
of DX pileups, to my utter amazement.

*Having said that, I had nothing else to compare it to in an A/B test!

73, Mike
W0BTU

On Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 3:37 PM Artek Manuals <Manuals at artekmanuals.com> wrote:

> Correction that should be N6LF (not N6FL)
>
> NR1DX
>
> On 1/1/2021 4:26 PM, Artek Manuals wrote:
> > N6FL was quoted earlier ...
> > https://www.antennasbyn6lf.com/design_of_radial_ground_systems/
> >
> > However N6FL states "The article is primarily intended to show why I
> > (he, N6FL)
>
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