Hi John and thx for the reply. I too used to sell verticals short and I was
mystified why anyone would admit to having a "ground mounted" vertical of
all kinds. But with a well built vertical and plenty of radials one can bust
pileups in DX...I am so pleased with my 5-BTV.

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Charlie
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"John Franklin" wrote in message
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Charlie............I read the posts with humor as well. Sounds
like you would like to do some serious field measurements. I will say that
one year for field day two friends and myself put up a 4BTV, with 32
radials out. We got out so well with it we took the 40M dipole down. We
worked quite a bit of DX as well, this was from a mountain top.
I think too many people sell the verticles short...............and I will
bow out at this point.

73,
WB7FFI

"Charlie" wrote in message
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Using a Hustler 5-BTV ground mounted with 72 radials. I have heard about
antenna modeling but is there any way to do a real world take off angle
measurement???