[TowerTalk] Fwd: Grounding of tower

[Jim Lux]

On 5/10/13 8:24 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 5/10/2013 6:34 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
>> So if you're driving 30 rods as part of your antenna farm,
>
> But we do NOT want a connection to earth as part of TX antenna systems
> -- the earth is quite lossy, so RF current flowing in the earth WASTES
> transmitter power.  The function of a radial system is to SHIELD the EM
> field produced by the antenna from the lossy earth, so that return
> current flows in low resistance WIRE rather than the lossy earth.
>

this is certainly true, but "de gustibus non disputandum"... If you DO 
want to drive a bunch of rods (maybe you have a sister who works for 
Hilti and needs testing of new rotohammers)...