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

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

Antenna fact:  If it stayed up in the last storm, either (a) it was well 
built and properly installed, or (b) it wasn't large enough.

Thus, if it works to your satisfaction, then it is a good antenna.

73

Bob, K4TAX


On 3/15/2020 2:37 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:
> OK, well one can study theory for several years before deciding what 
> antenna to use ... or just put up something and try it.
> My guess a quarter-wave vertical with some radials will work.  How 
> well?  You will only find out by trying it.
>
> My favorite HF antenna has been the simple half-wave dipole -cheap, 
> easy, quick.  I did eventually obtain a triband trap yagi for 
> 20-15-10m and works much better. Currently I have a 80/40m inverted-V 
> ...and it works well for my needs.  Worked a station on 80m SSB with 
> S9 signals on Saturday at 11am!  Sure he was only a hundred+ miles 
> (short range is often harder). K3/10+KXPA100
>
> On 630m (475-KHz) I have a 43-foot high inverted-L (that is 8% of a 
> quarter-wave).  And my radials are limited to 100-foot by my property 
> lines.  Obviously a very poor antenna.  My CW signals was heard 4,000 
> miles away in Buffalo, NY.  Not an everyday occurrence, but a surprise 
> to me.
>
> 73, Ed
>
> -----------------------
>
> 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.
>
> Dave?? AB7E
>
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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