Re: Topband: Short radials?

["Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>]

> The principals were RCA employees.  The commission was an attempt to
> encourage entrepreneurs to build more radio stations, and as the upper
> reaches of BC band were not really in play yet, tower expense was a
> killer discouragement. Therefore all the attention to good signals
> from shorter towers over well-done and extensive radial fields.
The study at the start says it to prove that short radiators can have good 
results, and that towers do not need to be 1/2 wave tall.
I'll have to dig around when I get time. 

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