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Re: Topband: My Turn For a Brain Pick - Sanity Check

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Subject: Re: Topband: My Turn For a Brain Pick - Sanity Check
From: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Reply-to: Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 16:11:20 -0400
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* Are your radials resonant? For the purposes that you are attempting,
they need to be, in order to maintain the phase relationship between the
driven element and the parasite.
Actually there are three cases that work:

1.) Where a limited size system has radials are exactly resonant

2.) Where the system is reasonably large, and because of size, has minimal (almost no) reactance contribution
3.) The small or resonant system is "tuned" to compensate ground system 
reactance out
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