[TowerTalk] folded radials

[Tom Rauch]

> One model might be to consider the base as a resistor (the
car body) and a
> capacitor and resistor in series (the coupling to the
ground and the ground
> loss).
>
> Just that plates a fraction of an inch off the ground are
coupled much more
> strongly than a car body, and the effect isn't negligible.


That's why the closer a small counterpoise is to earth, the
greater the losses are. The worse case would be when it is
connected to the lossy earth.