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Re: [TowerTalk] folded radials

To: <towertalk@contesting.com>,"VR2BrettGraham" <vr2bg@harts.org.hk>,"Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] folded radials
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 12:44:10 -0400
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
> One model might be to consider the base as a resistor (the
car body) and a
> capacitor and resistor in series (the coupling to the
ground and the ground
> loss).
>
> Just that plates a fraction of an inch off the ground are
coupled much more
> strongly than a car body, and the effect isn't negligible.


That's why the closer a small counterpoise is to earth, the
greater the losses are. The worse case would be when it is
connected to the lossy earth.


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