Hi, I am building a vertical antenna for low bands, 160, 80, 40 and 30m. Unfortunately my property is small, so, i can not install quarter wave radials for 160m. 60ft is maximun length. If somebody h
Don't worry about quarterwave radials. Just put as many short ones as you can afford! 73, Mirko, S57AD _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.co
If laid on or under ground, as many as possible and lengths don't matter. If elevated, need to be resonant, but assume this is not your case. For excellent info on radials, see: http://www.antennasby
Hi, Let me give more information. I am trying to build the antenna published in Sep/1981 QST. It is 44 ft high plus a capacitance hat. It is 5/8 on 30m, 1/2 on 40m, 1/4 on 80m and 1/8 on 160m (the ve
Ok,, What you can do since it is elevated, yes they ( The Radials ) do need to be resonant just like a dipole. And since you can not do full sized ones. You can just like a dipole add loading coils t
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Take a look at the K2AV FCP folded Counterpoise design on the internet. That is what we now use at KP2M for topband. 73, Philip KT3Y Hi, Let me give more information. I am trying to build the antenna
You can use a variety of methods of electrically lengthening physically short radials, from the coils Joe suggests to linear methods or just running the full-size radials in the spaces available, zig
Hi, Thank you everybody for your ideas and information about verticals. I have been reading many articles written bt Rudy, N6LF about Lazy-H. It is very interesting antenna. somebody know about any m