[TowerTalk] Radials - What is the big deal?

[Gary Schafer]

> 
> I can't imagine giving advice to try a vertical without some thought
> to radials. There is a noticeable improvement in even adding a single
> radial to a groiund rod only sustem. The ham that uses 4 quarter wave
> radials would be much better off putting that 1 wavelength of wire
> down as 10 one tenth wave radials.
>

A half wave vertical will perform pretty well with a minimum ground system.

 
I don't suppose that QST would publish an article on
> how to build a dipole where only one side of the dipole needed to be
> measured accurately. Yet they accept that kind of thinking for
> vertical antennas.

They have been doing that for many years: End fed zep..., Off center fed
dipole...

73
Gary  K4FMX