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Re: Topband: Question - optimum number of radials

To: "DALE LONG" <dale.long@prodigy.net>, <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Question - optimum number of radials
From: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Reply-to: Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 20:49:47 -0500
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I understand that 120 radials is the golden standard. At what point is there no significant improvement?>>>

120 radials never was a gold standard.

The FCC said if a AM BC station uses something like 110 radials, I forget the exact number, they can avoid doing a radial system proof of performance. I think Hams assumed that somehow meant 110 radials or whatever the exact number was were somehow "perfect".

There is no improvement here on 40M at about 20-30 radials. YMMV.

This will be different on different bands at the same location, and different on the same bands at different locations, and even different with different antennas. So what happens in one cause is probably not true in others.

Read carefully, and you will see even Rudy Severns says that, so his gold standard isn't gold.

73 Tom

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