Tod -ID wrote:
> I guess I have the wrong idea about how the radials of a vertical work.
> For
> some reason I thought that they operated as a 'screen' that kept the
> return
> currents out of the ground enough so that the "ground" losses were less.
The trouble with this theory is that it predicts that 1/2 wave
verticals with no radials, 1/4 wave verticals with a few elevated radials,
and ground plane antennas shouldn't work very well. Actual
tests should otherwise.
Rick N6RK
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