Topband: Short radials?

[Tom W8JI]

> 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.