[TowerTalk] Re: One more ground radial question

[Tom Champlin]

That is exactly what I would like to know. I know from experience that many 
radials will make a vertical work much better, but I would like to see some 
real world tests, not mathematical conjecture. Surely someone in the history 
of radio has taken a vertical and added a few radials and taken some kind of 
measurements and then added more radials ant taken the measurements again, 
and so on. If anyone has a reference to such testing, I for one would like 
to read it too.


73, Tom W0HH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Erik Holm" <sm2ekm at telia.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: One more ground radial question


> Is something like this ever confirmed by field
> strenght measurements?
>
> 73 Jim SM2EKM
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Don Havlicek wrote:
> > Yes!
> > In my case ... 60 radials spaced 6 degrees apart .. then concentrations
> > of ten radials at 1 degree each for Europe, Japan, South America, and
> > VK/ZL ... works like gangbusters .. all I need now is to clean out the
> > shack and put a new feedline out to the vertical again!
> > Don
> > N8DE
> >
> > va3pl at cuic.ca wrote:
> >
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Havlicek" <n8de at thepoint.net>
> >> To: <kb9cry at comcast.net>
> >> Cc: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:12 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] One more ground radial question
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I believe the word "optimum" should be replaced with "sufficient".
> >>> My experience with verticals tells me that 100 radials works much
> >>> better than 60, especially when concentrated in certain directions.
> >>
> ,
>
>
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