[TowerTalk] Chicken Wire Ground Screen

[Jim Brown]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:06:29 -0400, Joe Giacobello wrote:

> OTOH, wouldn't the remnants of the wire and its degradation products 
>enhance the conductivity of the soil surrounding the antenna so that 
>the remaining radials are now more effective?

NO!  Go back to the ARRL Antenna Book and re-study the chapter on "The 
Effect of Ground." Radials have NOTHING to do with the earth. Radials 
REPLACE the earth in the antenna circuit by providing a much lower 
resistance path than earth for the current and fields produced by 
antenna current. 

73,

Jim Brown K9YC