Got a lot of mail about this, teaching me to shut up because I don't
have much free time.
Look folks, as you all know, just about everything with antennas works
in some fashion and there's a sliding scale. It's not all black and
white. With elevated radials, it isn't as if putting radials at 20
feet up for a 160 m. vertical monopole or 30 feet or anything below 50
feet like 49, will turn them off and make them entirely
non-functional. But gradually, as they are placed ever closer to
earth, their function as a _counterpoise_ is lessened, and they become
more of a _ground system_. You can certainly place them at say, 20
feet high, however, I'd employ more than three or four at that height.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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