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Coaxial Cable to Mounting Pipe
The coaxial cable should be routed from your radio room to the base
of the antenna system and be buried below the radial system you will
be installing.
PVC Conduit pipe may be used to house the coaxial cable. Bury the
cable 4" to 12" below ground level.
Chapter 4 - Some Really Good Information
Get the Best Performance From Your New Quarter-Wave Vertical Antenna
11
Some Brief Words on Ground Mounting, Elevated Mounting, and Radial Wires
12
How to Put Radial Wires Down Without Digging
13
Radial System Considerations
14
Get the Best Performance From Your New Quarter-Wave Vertical Antenna
To be certain to get optimum performance from this vertical design, please assemble and install
your new antenna according to these
DX Engineering
Assembly and High Performance
Installation Instructions
. These instructions are intended to replace those originally supplied by
the manufacturer. The Hustler
®
BTV series of antennas is manufactured by New-Tronics Antenna
Corporation, Mineral Wells, Texas.
By following these instructions you will be able to take advantage of all of the performance that
your Hustler
®
HF Multi-Band Vertical has to offer. Here are a few facts about the HF quarter-wave
vertical antenna:
For best results, plan for a ground-mount installation with many radials.
Engineers and
Amateurs “in-the-know” install a complete ground radial wire system to significantly
improve quarter-wave vertical antenna performance for transmitting and receiving. Use
copper wire. Do not use grids, mesh fence material or steel which are known to be poor
performers especially for the long term.
Mounting this antenna without radials results in average to below average performance and
only local or medium range contacts. Due to RF ground losses, a vertical installation with no
radials or only a few radials will have drastically reduced efficiency. On those installations,
even though a wider frequency range of low SWR may result, that is a very poor trade-off
for an antenna system that offers performance.
Any HF vertical mounted a few to many feet above ground with only a few radials suffers
virtually the same ground losses as a ground mounted vertical with a few radials. This
manual shows you how to plan and install ground radials for better antenna performance and
gratifying operational results in almost any situation.
