Re: Topband: Radial Wire System Comparison - (was adding a parasitic reflect

2018-02-01 Thread MICHAEL ST ANGELO
Paul, I got a good deal on stranded teflon wire. It cost me $0. I lay it on the ground. The only issue I have with it is that the wire is stranded and it wicks in moisture. Teflon is easily nicked and the moisture finds it's way in. You mentioned your wire is solid so you should not have that

Re: Topband: Radial Wire System Comparison - (was adding a parasitic reflect

2018-02-01 Thread Paul Christensen
>"The reason is that the standard DA ground system as far as I know, has always involved strapping radials to a copper strap running along the line of radial intersection, clipping off the radial wire that runs past the strap." Unless there's modeled or measured data, that's the "conventional

Topband: Radial Wire System Comparison - (was adding a parasitic reflect

2018-02-01 Thread Rob Atkinson
>> I have researched Laport's material, and find nothing that compares multi-tower array performance when using insulated radial wire versus uninsulated wire when using a bus wire at the radial overlap points. Since his worked in the 1950s mostly focused on directional broadcast tower arrays --