>Bradley L Mugleston wrote:
>>
>> I have 250 feet of three strand house wire that I am going to cut into
>> radials for my vertical. I was going to cut a 20M/10M/5M and a
>> 5M/10M/20M section out of the first 25M length to give me two 80M 1/4
>
>Again, the only time that cutting the radials to a specific frequency is
>warranted is when the vertical is mounted up in the air or when you are
>approaching 120 ground mounted radials.
>
>For more info, check out the ARRL Handbook and the ARRL Antenna
>Handbook.
>
>73 de Dave, N0IT
Amongst the RSGB books I have on antennas it is strongly suggested that one
go for more radials than fewer radials cut for resonance. A quick reading
of the literature would suggest that you will do quite well with a
ground-mounted vertical if you can get 20-30 radials at least .10
wavelength at the lowest frequency of interest. This flies against the
conventional "wisdom" but often this "wisdom" isn't.
73,
Grover
K7TP
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