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I've read that when building a basic 1/4-wave antenna on VHF, the radials should be about 1/4-wavelength, or about 19.5", depending upon the exact frequency you're using. If we think of the radials as playing the role of a dipole's bottom-half, that makes sense to me.
But I've also read that...
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