Just out of curiosity, did you have an RF choke or resistor across the
vertical's feedpoint to bleed off static when you lived in Farmington?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Henry Kolesnik wrote:
I had a dipole and vertical when I lived in the Four Corners and the
vertical was so noisy on receive that it was just about useless but I did
use it on transmit. Farmington is at 5600 ft. elev. and quite dry with dry
rock soil.

Later when I moved to Tulsa where the ground and air are always damp the
vertical was a lot quieter and useable on receive.

Radials do make a noteable differnce, the more radials the better but no on
receive. Lots of noise is vertically polarized and drier air seems to have
more.