Topband: insulated vs:bare radial wires

[Rick Karlquist]

Tod -ID wrote:
>  I guess I have the wrong idea about how the radials of a vertical work.
> For
> some reason I thought that they operated as a 'screen' that kept the
> return
> currents out of the ground enough so that the "ground" losses were less.

The trouble with this theory is that it predicts that 1/2 wave
verticals with no radials, 1/4 wave verticals with a few elevated radials,
and ground plane antennas shouldn't work very well.  Actual
tests should otherwise.

Rick N6RK