[Antennas] Radial Wires VS a wire or screen mesh

[Barry Sherwood]

Funny how real world and theory collide at times. I used a Hustler 5BTV with just a ground rod for several years with good results then switched to a Butternut HF6V with the stub tuned radial kit just laid out on top of sandy soil. It too worked well for my usage.

Barry Sherwood
KF5GC


--- On Sat, 11/14/09, K2RS <K2RSonline at comcast.net> wrote:

From: K2RS <K2RSonline at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Antennas] Radial Wires VS a wire or screen mesh
To: 
Cc: antennas at mailman.qth.net
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8:20 PM

The contest station with the chicken-wire ground system for its 160 
antennas is always near the top of the multi-multi category in major DX 
contests and manages to rack up lots of Qs on 160 meters. So, while the 
chicken wire might not be optimal, it works in the real world and, in 
the end, that's all that really counts.

Jack   K2RS

Terry Conboy wrote:
> This is probably fine as far as it goes.  The problem is that with only 
> 4 rolls of chicken wire, there is still a lot of soil between the 
> conductive mesh.  The idea of using a large number of wire radials is to 
> provide a path for the RF displacement current back to the base of the 
> antenna that only involves a very short distance for current flowing in 
> the poorly conductive soil until it reaches a good conductor.
>   
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