>so, what's the best way to go with the radials?
There are some excellent tech articles on this topic on the ARRL website. I
strongly
suggest that you read them.
The executive summary is that 1) the more radials the better; 2) the longer
the radials
are the better; 3) given the same total length of wire in the ground, having
more
radials closer to the tower is more important than having longer radials; 4) by
the time
you hit 60 or more radials that a quarter wave or so, you're probably within 3
dB of the
best it's gonna get; 5) virtually all of the modeling assumes homogeneous
ground, and
real ground isn't homogenous.
Jim Brown K9YC
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