In a message dated 6/23/2004 1:39:19 AM GMT Standard Time, k2wh@optonline.net
writes:
I'm not so sure of this method. Perhaps I am reading it incorrectly but I
think the gentleman is saying he wants to use one continuous length of wire
that
will go from one stake back to the base of the antenna, (make no electrical
connection) then go back to the next stake etc. until eventual connection to
the base of the antenna with the very end of the wire.
If this is correct, aren't we introducing a large IR drop in this
muti-thousands of feet of wire for signals entering at the far end vs signals
at the near
end?
I did not read it that way, but yes you are right. The radials need to be
bonded together at the base of the tower so that there is no large IR drop. I
see no problem with having everyother one connected together at the edge of the
radial field since they will be effectivly shorted together at the tower.
73.........de Goose, W8AV
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