Topband: Technique for Putting Down Radials?

[W8AV at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/23/2004 1:39:19 AM GMT Standard Time, k2wh at 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