> Idea is each individual strand in the cable will act as one radial. > BUT I probable know the answer.
Unfortunately there is no magic. The objective of a radial is spread the electric and magnetic fields out, so they are not as intense. The only real solution is to fill a large physical area of space in terms of the fractional wavelength, like maybe 1/4 to 1/2 wave of physical space in every direction possible. This means we can fold a radial or pack radials in a group, and we still have whatever linear space that system occupies. It is very similar to an antenna, where packing 5000 feet of wire in a small one foot box results in a one foot area antenna. There just isn't any magic by any amount of folding or grouping, we still have the same area in wavelengths. We can do things to change reactance and change voltage and current distribution, but in the grand scheme of things it effectively remains the same linear spatial area or LESS. The entire cable acts as one radial. If it was .1 wavelengths long physically and wired to fold the wires back and forth, it would still be .1 wavelengths long. If it had all the wires in parallel at the start end or both ends, it would still act like one wire. As a matter of fact if in parallel, all the wires inside the bundle would electrically just vanish and not carry any current, like the core wires of a stranded conductor. You can make it act like a stub and change reactance, but it won't ever get electrically bigger as a radial, just like folding wires in an antenna does not make it couple to space better. 73 Tom _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK