[TowerTalk] "Magic" length from tower to first insulator

[jimlux]

On 3/16/16 9:47 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> On 3/16/2016 9:01 AM, Larry Loen wrote:
>
>> Comments?  Dissents?  What did I overlook?
>>
>
> What you overlooked was that if the wire is
> not insulated from the tower, the resonance
> is at 1/4 wavelength not 1/2 wavelength.

Seems reasonable (e.g. the tower is "big" compared to the wire, so it's 
sort of like a 1/4 wavelength whip over a ground plane..)

I wonder if that's how it works in reality, though?

Maybe that top guy segment (connected to the tower) is really a very 
long wire that happens to be bent at the end, and doesn't feature into 
the circuit?