> W1XT had his feed points at 6 feet above ground and the
radials were
> horizontal. All radials should be well isolated from each
other as there
> can be very high voltage between them.
That's a sign of high electric field intensity, and that
means high losses in surrounding lossy media.
If the radials were acting like a low-impedance ground and
doing their intended job of spreading the fields out they
wouldn't have high voltages.
73 Tom
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