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Ha ha, thanks, but I'll be right. It would seem that a lot of members have their grounding theory confused with ground plane theory, and that within the ground plane theory. I mean with a ground mounted monopole antenna, the purpose of the ground radials is primarily to reduce ground losses, screen out the lossy ground or poor ground efficiency if you will. The number and length of these wires (combined) is important, it's not a set length like a quarter or half wave, and the number and other factors contribute to that critical length also, that is if you wish to optimise this. Same goes for elevated ground plane antennas. The popular quarter wave droopy will work at it's best based on a combination of ground radial lengths (number of radials again), their angle and this all in respect to the vertical driven element length and then height above ground. Tricky combination to work out in the real world.

<blockquote data-quote="arc1" data-source="post: 666003"><p>Ha ha, thanks, but I&#039;ll be right. It would seem that a lot of members have their grounding theory confused with ground plane theory, and that within the ground plane theory. I mean with a ground mounted monopole antenna, the purpose of the ground radials is primarily to reduce ground losses, screen out the lossy ground or poor ground efficiency if you will. The number and length of these wires (combined) is important, it&#039;s not a set length like a quarter or half wave, and the number and other factors contribute to that critical length also, that is if you wish to optimise this. Same goes for elevated ground plane antennas. The popular quarter wave droopy will work at it&#039;s best based on a combination of ground radial lengths (number of radials again), their angle and this all in respect to the vertical driven element length and then height above ground. Tricky combination to work out in the real world.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="arc1, post: 666003"] Ha ha, thanks, but I'll be right. It would seem that a lot of members have their grounding theory confused with ground plane theory, and that within the ground plane theory. I mean with a ground mounted monopole antenna, the purpose of the ground radials is primarily to reduce ground losses, screen out the lossy ground or poor ground efficiency if you will. The number and length of these wires (combined) is important, it's not a set length like a quarter or half wave, and the number and other factors contribute to that critical length also, that is if you wish to optimise this. Same goes for elevated ground plane antennas. The popular quarter wave droopy will work at it's best based on a combination of ground radial lengths (number of radials again), their angle and this all in respect to the vertical driven element length and then height above ground. Tricky combination to work out in the real world. [/QUOTE]

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