Not enough room for towers and radials? Antennas aren't big enough?
Here's an employment opportunity to work on ELF antennas at the 2 megawatt U.S.
Navy NAA transmitter in sunny, warm Cutler, Maine.
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http://www.navy-radio.com/commsta/cutler.htm
73
Frank
W3LPL
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:34:05 -0500
>From: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
>Subject: Re: Topband: Radials help
>To: Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger@bellsouth.net>
>Cc: topband@contesting.com, herbs@vitelcom.net
>
>
>On 2012-02-10, at 1:21 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>
>> If any of you think an insulated radial field can just plopped down based on
>> a formula on just any plot of land and be efficient, think again. All that
>> is necessary to be abysmally INefficient is for the construction ground fill
>> underneath your sod to be variable in composition, or contain metallic pipes
>> or buried wires or a septic system. In this case your radials are no longer
>> ELECTRICALLY dense and uniform, current distribution becomes wacky,
>> effectively removing radials from the system, and the radial system has
>> become an unbalanced ground heater, and quite inferior to an elevated
>> counterpoise. (Sound familiar?)
>>
>
>Hi Guy,
>
>All this talk about "idealized" radial systems, vs. "compromised" radial
>fields, hearkens me back to the words of an old Rolling Stones song, to whit:
>
>"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might
>find you get what you need."
>
>I'll never have the proverbial "120 full-length radials" here (what I may
>want), so I'll just have to make do with my 24 one-eighth wave compromises
>(what I need---certainly better than no radials at all! Hi).
>
>~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
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