[TowerTalk] parasitic 4-square for 40 meters

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Tue Feb 22 11:43:56 EST 2005


> W1XT had his feed points at 6 feet above ground and the
radials were
> horizontal.  All radials should be well isolated from each
other as there
> can be very high voltage between them.

That's a sign of high electric field intensity, and that
means high losses in surrounding lossy media.

If the radials were acting like a low-impedance ground and
doing their intended job of spreading the fields out they
wouldn't have high voltages.

73 Tom



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