Topband: Ground Screens - Another Small Space Option

[Richard Fry]

Just to note that Edmund Laport (once the Chief Engineer of RCA 
International) did not support the use of ground screens in his textbook 
RADIO ANTENNA ENGINEERING (page 121), citing eddy current losses around the 
closed-loop circuits of such ground screens.

More common for AM broadcast stations these days where the E-field near the 
tower base is quite high is to intersperse ~50-foot buried radials between 
their normal 120 x 1/4-wave buried radials.

R. Fry