[TowerTalk] Radial Ends Buried???

[Jim Brown]

On 11/18/2022 8:38 AM, Test wrote:
> I'm about to install 20 radials for a Hi-Gain AV-18HT and Hi-Gain recommends
> burying the Radial ends if installing less than 60 radials.

There is ZERO reason for radials making electrical contact with the 
earth. Their function is to provide return current for the antenna IN 
PLACE OF the earth, which is very lossy (that is, it wastes transmitter 
power), and to SHIELD the antenna's fields from the earth.

73, Jim K9YC