Re: Topband: Ground Radials Yet Again

["Ian Keyser" <ian.keyser@btopenworld.com>]

> Specifically, wire laid atop the ground may be considered to have a 
> velocity factor of 50%...which means, of course, that any 1/4-wave 
> (physically long) radials that I meticulously laid-out beneath my inverted 
> "L" last year were, in fact, 1/2-wave (electrically long) radials...



Wow, that explains a funny effect I was getting the other day on 20m when 
experimenting with a ground plane!!!


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