[Elecraft] Radials for vertical

[David Cole]

Wow...  Great minds think alike...  I just got your email on Rudy...  :)
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Thanks and 73's,
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On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 06:17 -0700, Mike K2MK wrote:
> Hi Doug,
> 
> The single best source of information on radials that I have found is that
> published by Rudy, N6LF. Here is a link:
> 
> http://www.antennasbyn6lf.com/design_of_radial_ground_systems
> 
> Scroll down the page and check out the seven part article that he published
> in QEX magazine and the six radial experiments that he conducted. It’s
> wonderful stuff.
> 
> 73,
> Mike K2MK
> 
> 
> 
> Elecraft mailing list wrote
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
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