[TowerTalk] Radial Connection to tower

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,12/15/2015 10:53 AM, Gary Schafer wrote:
> Another way to think about this is that your antenna starts at ground.

But that's WRONG. The earth is a big resistor. Radials SHIELD the 
antenna from the lossy earth, providing a return for the fields produced 
by the antenna and a low resistance path for the return current.

> When
> you have a long ground lead (any length) from the radial system to your feed
> point that lead is part of your antenna.

Correct -- but BOTH that lead AND the radials are part of the antenna.

> It doesn't matter that your feed
> point may be a few feet above ground, the whole distance from the top of the
> vertical right to the ground plane is going to look like part of the
> antenna.

not "ground plane," RADIAL SYSTEM.  Otherwise this is correct.

73, Jim K9YC