On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:25:48 GMT, Ken wrote:

It was anticipated that
the ribbon would run right up to the tuner. I could drop the 10M
conductor from the ribbon (using a separate radial for that) and put
the rest of the bands on ribbon cable that was 8.4 ft away. Or I
could put 10M, 12M, 17M and 20M on their own 4-conductor radial, 16.6
ft long, and start the ribbon cable for 30, 40/15, 80 and 160/60 at
the end of a 16.6 ft wire (which could even be a fifth conductor on
the high-band segment).

Hi Ken,

Ultimately if you are going to use a tuner, what does it matter?

If the radials lie along the ground, what does it matter? The
proximity of ground is going to detune them anyway unless you get some
serious elevation (80/160M?) for the feedpoint. The proximity of
ground is going to kill the Q to the point of no serious tuning issue.
The proximity of ground is not going to be masked by onesy-twosy
radials. When you've already lost 6dB to ground, who's going to
notice another quarter dB lost to the tuner?

Run them zig-zag? What does it matter? Such conflicting advice is
obscured by results out two decimal places - your contact wouldn't be
able to resolve that difference on their S-Meter if they had a
binocular microscope focused on it.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC