[UK-CONTEST] Attaching Radials

[G3SJJ]

Not the wx for attenna work but needs must, one of the 40m phased array 
feed lines developed an intermittent on the braid connection. Whilst 
sorting that out I decided to rip the old radials up and start again as 
there was only about 10 left of the original lot on that element. 
Managed to get 14 out before I lost circulation completely in my fingers.

A Spring project to add more so here's my question. What is the best way 
to attach radials?

I normally make up bunches of 5 or 7, each bunch terminated in one tag. 
I then put several of these plus the coax braid on a single bolt through 
a clamp on an earth rod. On the 80m gp, I use thicker wire, mainly from 
older antenna projects which were cluttering up the garage, so they are 
made up in pairs.

I visited G4AMN recently and saw his 80m 4Sq. Each element had 80 
radials individually terminated on a plate around the base. That seems 
quite a major task. So I wondered whether I would see any improvement 
over my method.

Low angle and gain seems ok as it seems to cope with long path VK, ZL, 
W6, VE7 ok so I am particularly looking to improve the front to back, 
which whilst is good, I feel could be better.

Chris G3SJJ