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Re: Topband: Short radials?

To: Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Short radials?
From: Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:24:16 -0400
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Not that it was a surprise.  Says it in the beginning and spends the
last three pages on it.  Was a focused commercial enterprise.  73,
Guy.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com> wrote:
>
>> The principals were RCA employees.  The commission was an attempt to
>> encourage entrepreneurs to build more radio stations, and as the upper
>> reaches of BC band were not really in play yet, tower expense was a
>> killer discouragement. Therefore all the attention to good signals
>> from shorter towers over well-done and extensive radial fields.
>
>
> The study at the start says it to prove that short radiators can have good
> results, and that towers do not need to be 1/2 wave tall.
>
> I'll have to dig around when I get time.
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