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Re: [TowerTalk] Verticals and well pipe grounding

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Verticals and well pipe grounding
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 10:19:20 -0800
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On Sat,2/6/2016 9:00 AM, Kevin Kidd wrote:
If you have any semblance of a radial ground system, I don't find this
surprising.

A connection to the earth does NOT make our antennas work better unless that connection is to a body of salt water! The earth is a big resistor. The function of radials is to SHIELD our antenna from the earth, and provide a low resistance return for antenna current and fields.

73, Jim K9YC
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