Topband: Low Loops, Tee's and ...

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,6/30/2015 10:40 AM, dick.bingham wrote:
> The ground system is a single 8-foot Rod driven into the sandy/rocky soil and the antenna fed through an appropriately "tapped" inductor in a parallel-LC network connected between ground and one of the antenna's end-wires.

That's not a ground system, it's a dummy load. A ground system requires 
either radials or a counterpoise of the sort that K2AV has developed. A 
radial system has two functions -- to SHIELD the antenna's fields from 
the lossy earth, and to carry return current. All the ground rod does is 
connect to lossy earth, which, as far as the antenna is concerned, is a 
big resistor.

73, Jim K9YC