And please don't forget that elevated radials will be resonant. Gotta be
cut to your desired operating frequency or they will really upset the tuning
of the vertical. I would expect that at least a pair of radials for each
band will work.
de Paul, W8AEF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Conboy" <n6ry@arrl.net>
To: "Tim Kass" <timkass@hotmail.com>; <hcawthra@sbcglobal.net>;
<TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] tower mounted vertical
> At 05:03 PM 2005-06-11, Tim Kass wrote:
>>If you slope the radials, that will lower the impedance a bit, for a full
>>size 1/4 wave ground plane it will match 50 ohms...either way it shouldnt
>>change more than about 20 ohms and should still present a decent match to
>>50
>>ohm coax.
>
> I'm sure Tim meant to say that the impedance will go up with sloped
> radials. I modeled quarter-wavelength verticals on a 50 foot tower, with
> four 45 degree sloping radials. The feed impedance at resonance varied
> between 33 and 50 ohms, not bad. (Many people don't realize that a ground
> plane with four horizontal radials in free space is about 22 ohms instead
> of the 36 ohms plus ground losses seen with the radials on the dirt.) Of
> course, with a trap antenna, things will likely be somewhat different.
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