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https://applicationmanager.gov/Questionnaire.aspx?ID=4313317&PreviewType=Questionnaire 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 <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Topband: Radials help >To: Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > >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 > >_______________________________________________ >UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
