I queried a real old timer locally about pretty much the same thing...
He said that would give me consistant radiation patterns, despite the ground
drying out during the summer.
Regardless, it certianly would not hurt!
"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Here is the scenario:

Hamshack on the west side of the house.

OCF dipole between two trees running perpendicular over the house with the
Balun directly above the shack (now *that* is handy)

Butternut vertical on the east side of the house. 12 radials so far.

Now here is what brings about the question. Over the winter months, I had
to have my sewer line to the street replaced, which ended up making a huge
mess out of my front yard. This means that I will probably end up tilling
and replanting a large part of the yard.

Is there any point to laying radials in the front yard? They would be
quite a ways (~50 feet) from the radials around the Butternut.

The main reason I ask though, is that I thought I heard here some time
ago, that a dipole would perform better over a good ground system.

- Mike KB3EIA -