Hi Richard

Thanks for the advice!

However, I do use copper radials from each vertical.
From my Butternut HF9Vw/160 I used 3,500 feet of copper wire to make
the radial bed. These were tied to an 8 foot grounding stake and
connected to the antenna's grounded mast.

I have antennas that did not work well at all when placed in the front
or side yard, but worked quite well in the back yard over all of that
mesh of buried wire!

Because of this, I'm planning on trying to duplicate as closely as
possible, what I had that worked so well for the last 20 years.

TTUL
Gary