"Ron" wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:09:29 -0400, Ron wrote:

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. It looks like the general
consensus is to add radials if I want it to work. I suspected that all
along but I got talked into it. Dipoles have always worked great for
me.

So, now I'm toying with the idea of mounting it on the roof. The back
half of the roof has only a 3" pitch, so it's easy to work on. There
are lots of trees around to tie the radials to.

I think I will do some experimentation with adding traps in the radial
lines. Maybe I can make 6 band radials. Would that work?

It's not strictly necessary that the radials be resonant on all bands to
improve your situation ... I would bet that if you cut the radials to 33'
you'll find a noticable improvement. As I said, I had only 2 per band (on
the ground) and it worked much better than without any radials. More is
better, of course, but in an aerial situation you'll be limited and I'd
recommend you try four 33' radials and see how that works.

The idea is to provide an "image plane" for the monopole to "work against"
and reduce ground losses ...

73,
Carl - wk3c