[Elecraft] Radials for vertical

[Doug Person via Elecraft]

Most people would think we're well into Summer.  Not here in the High 
Rockies.  Summer here has just begun.  Time to mend some fences.  Now 
the point: I just pulled about a mile of #11 soft drawn aluminum wire - 
mostly in 50' to 100' lengths.  Normally its electrified and the cattle 
won't touch it.  But last year the charger died and the cattle just 
shredded the wire to get into my grassy meadow.

So now I have all this aluminum wire that I would hate to throw away.  
So I'm thinking of making a really good ground plane and putting up a 
vertical of some kind.  I have enough scrap tubing to make about 38' or 
so.  I was thinking of putting a remote tuner at the base of the 
vertical as the length of coax to reach it will probably be at least 150'.

So I'd be interested in comments on how to configure the radials in 
terms of length and number.  I know there's some guys on this reflector 
that real know a lot about this sort of thing.

Thanks & 73,

Doug -- K0DXV