Two new triradicals based on trovacene [(q7-tropylium)vanadium(qS-cyclopentadienyl)], 1,3,5-tri ([5]trovacenyl)benzene 4 and 1,3,5-tri([5]trovacenyl)-6-methoxybenzene 5 were prepared and their magnetic properties were studied by continuous-wave X-band electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and by temperature-dependent magnetic susceptometry. The EPR spectra of 4 and 5 in liquid toluene solution demonstrate that the three unpaired electrons localized on the vanadium atoms interact with each other in both complexes. The data from magnetic susceptometry revealed that the electron spins in both triradicals ate antiferromagnetically coupled despite the meta-phenylene bridge. The exchange coupling constants ate equal in the C3-symmetrical triradical 4 (J = J' = -0.68 cm-~), which leads to a twofold degenerate spin ground state (spin frustration). The symmetry lowering by methoxy substitution of the benzene spacer in 5 results in the effect of competing interactions ( 3 " = -1 . 8 3 cm -~ and J ' = -2 . 3 8 cm-~). In addition to magnetocommunication, the effect of ring substitution on electrocommunication is also discernable. It manifests itself in disparate redox splittings 8E1/2 (0/-, -/ 2 -) and 5EI/2 ( -/ 2 -, 2 -/ 3 -) for 5, while these parameters are equal for the C3-symmetrical trinuclear complex 4.