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Re: Topband: Coax Shield vs. Ground & elevated radials

To: Telegrapher9@aol.com, topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Coax Shield vs. Ground & elevated radials
From: Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:11:49 -0500
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Telegrapher9@aol.com wrote:
 
> When elevated radials are mentioned they are often full 90-degree radials.
> The low impedance presented by the radials makes decoupling the coaxial cable
> shield easy.


Unfortunately, not.

As an EZNEC computation can show, even with a large number of elevated
90-degree radials, there can be a lot of common mode current, and balun
requirements are much stronger than for, say, a horizontal dipole.
This is due to the lack of symmetry in the system.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VE3EA

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