On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:27:28 +0000, "Ian White, G3SEK"
wrote:

The 'right' radial layout for any given person will depend on their
available space, their resources, their limitations, their style of
operating (casual, DXing or contesting), and above all their antennas -
none of which you actually know.

For example, in presuming that my next radial installation will be in an
"ordinary English garden", you'd actually be wrong on all three counts!


Once upon a time....I had an 18AVT trapped vertical, which due to the
lack of gardening activities in the winter, I had added a number of
insulated wire radials lying on the surface of the grass. I kept
adding to these as time went by and wire became available.

One night, after a few evenings listening to the DX on 80m, I gathered
them all into a small arc pointing at the Caribbean. There must have
been 200 or 300 radial wires spread over ~10 degrees.

A local Amateur friend using an FT200 tuned up and waited until a KV4
station called, and he was the first station pulled out of the
following European pile-up, with a cracking signal report. It's just
anecdote, but I believe the 18AVT was working well in the manner I had
anticipated. It's my belief that you can't have too much in the way of
radials.....but each to his own.
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from
Aero Spike