[TowerTalk] Technique for Putting Don Radials?

[RICHARD BOYD]

Credited to W0UN, not W5UN.  He presented it in a "hints and kinks" sort of 
talk in the Dayton Antenna Forum, very interesting, some years back.  I've 
mentioned it here on the reflector a couple times before.

And, it shouldn't take much more wire.  Let's say the stakes are one or two 
or three feet apart at the perimeter, you would have, say, a 130' radial and 
a three foot extra piece going over to the next stake, then another 130' 
radial back in.  That's a pretty small percentage and not much "wastage."

73 - Rich, KE3Q


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Rosenberg" <wd3q at starpower.net>
To: <topband at contesting.com>; <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 5:40 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Technique for Putting Don Radials?


> At a recent PVRC meeting, an interesting method for laying down lots of
> radials for a vertical.  Instead of cutting each radial individually and
> attaching each piece to the vertical section, this technique involved
> first staking out the outer perimeter of the radial "field", followed by
> taking a LARGE spool of wire, attaching it on one end and unspooling it
> to one perimeter stake, across to the adjacent one and then back to the
> center "pole"... and repeating the process until completion.
>
> This seems to be a quicker, less labor intensive (although using more
> wire) method that appears to achieve the same effect... creating a ground
> plane.
>
> Did I get this right? I believe it was credited to W5UN, but I didn't see
> anything on his website.
>
> Can anyone comment on this and/or point me to some written documentation?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eric W3DQ
> Washington, DC
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