[TowerTalk] Accuracy of models

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Tue Apr 13 10:08:47 EDT 2004


Jim,

This is a point that gnaws at me:

> By the way, this whole RF impedance of the soil thing is why a lot of
those
> ground radial analyses leave something to be desired.  They tend to rely
on
> DC analysis, and ignore things like capacitive coupling from wire to
ground,
> etc.

There was a recent article about optimizing a radial system based on the
soil. The article described for a given amount of wire how it should be
distributed for optimum performance.

What is your opinion of following those or similar guidelines?

Also, I'm still looking for a coil Q program for HF loading inductors.

73 Tom




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