At 10:27 AM 1/7/04 +0000, Clive GM3POI wrote:
I'm thinking of a summer time makeover of all my 11 Rx antennas So I
will try for the best layout possible to minimise the effect of 5 acres of
radials.
Have you considered a receiving 4-square or larger vertical array, to turn
all those radials from a potential drawback to an advantage? W8JI has a
lot of good info about how to do this with top-loaded small verticals on
his web page, as well as figures of merit for a wide variety of possible
receiving antenna designs. <www.w8ji.com>
73, Pete N4ZR
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www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsdsearch.htm
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