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Minimizing Vertical Expenditures: Radial Grounding

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Some hams contemplating first-time use of phased verticals assume radials are attached to some kind of plate—such as DX Engineering’s radial plate, below. Click the image to read more about it.

Commercial ground radial connection scheme.

Since two are required for a pair of phased verticals, that comes to $180 to connect radials to feedlines. An alternative approach is described below.

Copper Ground Radial Rings

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