[TowerTalk] tower mounted vertical

[Dale Martin]

> And please don't forget that elevated radials will be resonant.  Gotta be
> cut to your desired operating frequency or they will really upset
> the tuning
> of the vertical.  I would expect that at least a pair of radials for each
> band will work.
>

If I have a pair of radials resonant to 21MHz and their ends are to the
north and south, will there by any directional effects on that band?  n/s,
e/w ???

I've never seriously played with verticals to find out.

But...

When I was a kid living in Whittier, CA, I had a roof-mounted 14avq with the
requisite pair of radials cut for each band.  The radials were strung out
the length of our house roof -- North-South.  I'm sure the years have
obscured/warped my perception of what I may have experienced, but it seems
like I worked a truckload more stations in the pacific NW/VE7/KL7/JA/UA than
to the east and west.  So, are there directional effects by the placement of
a pair of radials?  Or did I just imagine it?

73,
dale, kg5u