Hytower and radial help

[Allen Beadel]

Just purchased a Hygain Hytower vertical. The manual's
reccomendations/instructions for ground radials isn't very informative.
Anyone have any suggestion for a PRACTICAL radial system? 1. Best type
of wire 2. Realistically, how long and how many? 3. Where do the feed
ends attach? One common termination point, or group to attach to each
of the three legs, or to the ground rods, etc.?

Tnx for any help!!

Allen

[John KI4RO]

Hi Allen,
The more radials the better is the general rule. Tie them all together
at the base of the antenna and then your coax connection at the base should
take care of getting them connected.
I would reallistically start with 4 for each band and then increase
that number for each band as time and your pocketbook permit.

Good Luck!
John

Allen Beadel wrote:

--
73
John
ICQ #9557493
http://www.mnsinc.com/ki4ro/john.htm
http://www.mnsinc.com/ki4ro/fara.htm
http://www.qsl.net/ki4ro
http://www.mirabilis.com/9557493

[N1ho]

I had a Hy-Tower many years ago, and was fortunate to have it installed at the
edge of a
large field. Also, at about that time, Jerry Sevick (W2FMI) published an
article in QST about radials that proved helpful.

I ended up with a dozen radials cut for 0.4 wavelength at 80 meters and another
dozen cut
for 0.4 wavelength at 40 meters interspersed,
and it worked very, very well. I once worked Tuvalu on 75 phone at 0745 ET with
it !

However, I'd suggest at a bare minimum, four
radials that are 0.25 wavelength at 80 meters. If
those are too long, then shorten them to what
you can fit, and add as many more as you can
afford. 18AWG is plenty large enough.

[Phil Serafinas]

Allen Beadel wrote in message <35EB1C9C...@cowtownrv.com>...

>Just purchased a Hygain Hytower vertical. The manual's
>reccomendations/instructions for ground radials isn't very informative.
>Anyone have any suggestion for a PRACTICAL radial system? 1. Best type
>of wire 2. Realistically, how long and how many? 3. Where do the feed
>ends attach? One common termination point, or group to attach to each
>of the three legs, or to the ground rods, etc.?
>
>Tnx for any help!!
>
>Allen
>

Allen,

I also have a HYtower vertical and I would recommend the QST article from
June 1985 titled 'Radial Systems for Ground Mounted Vertical antennas. It is
the most informative on the subject I have seen. I think it was referenced
in the Hygain manual.

73
Phil