I have embarked on a vertical antenna project and will be covering the steps in several articles starting here…

http://www.cosjwt.com/index.php?a=7

This will be treated a bit like an engineering project with the following steps:

• Refine requirements
• Prepare Bill of Materials
• Select location in yard
• Water drill hole for mounting pipe
• Prepare area around pipe to counter sink radial ground system
• Specify and build monopole for one band
• Attach monopole to ground pipe and wire
• Specify and perform testing of feed point impedance vs. number of radial wires with first monopole
• On air tests
• Conclusions

I hope this might be useful to folks.