[Elecraft] Off-Topic: Your advice/suggestion about antenna

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Sat Mar 14 03:59:26 EDT 2020


Right.

73, Jim K9YC

On 3/14/2020 12:09 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
> There is some erroneous information here, as well as in Don W3FPR's post.
> 
> Radials, whether buried or raised, only affect near field ground return 
> currents.  You cannot improve ground conductivity beyond the radials, 
> and the strength of the low angle lobe is directly affected by the 
> ground conductivity several wavelengths distant from the vertical.  This 
> is well established science and you can clearly see the effect in simple 
> models.



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