On 9/12/2011 5:36 PM, ZR wrote: > At that prior QTH, about 30 years ago, with the ground screen I had a pair > of 1/4 wave 80M cage verticals that were also fed as 1/2 waves on 40M so Im > rather cognizant of how to feed them. Tests showed that they performed much > better when tied into the 80M radials of 60 at 70' long than to just a pair > of 8' ground rods.
Not at all surprising -- the radials are terminating the FIELDS produced by the antenna as well as sinking current from the antenna. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
