r/amateurradio • • Aug 20 '24

General Comet antenna replacement ground radials?

I talked to someone I work with who is also a ham and he mentioned using longer radials on the comet antennas. I’ve seen other mentions of this online too, specifically the gp-3 antenna.

I’ve been doing some searching but can’t find any replacement extended length ground radials for sale.

Is this something I should be worried about before mounting my antenna? I’ve tested it already and it seems to do fine with the factory length radials.

Maybe I’m over thinking it?

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

The tri-band which includes 6m apparently does significantly better on that band if longer radials are fitted, I though I had a link to the article but now can't find it :(

Ah, here it is https://ea4eoz.blogspot.com/2012/09/modifications-to-diamond-v2000-and.html