wrote:
Ok, I think I am learning something here. If radials simulate earth,
would using a solid steel plate instead of radials be better?

OK till it rusted away. Some very fine antennas have used
metal roofs for their ground planes.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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