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Re: [TowerTalk] Raised Radial Spacing

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Raised Radial Spacing
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2025 14:51:24 -0700
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Thanks, Tim.

73, Jim K9YC

On 10/25/2025 1:47 PM, Tim Duffy wrote:
Hi Jim

It is K3LC - not K3LA

73
Tim K3LR

In general, for on-ground radials, more is better and resonance is less
important than more. Remember that the function of radials is NOT to
couple to the earth, but to provide a low-loss path for return current,
and also to SHIELD the antenna's field from the the earth. There is a
great treatment of this in the Handbook or Antenna Book, by K3LA (I hope
I got his call right), that it took a while for me to get my head around.

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