[TowerTalk] Peak Voltage at the tips of ants ?

[Rob Atkinson]

You can't go wrong with good insulators at the ends of a dipole or the
top of a hanging monopole.  Long ceramics or glass, dogbones, rope a
couple or more in series, help minimize loss when the support rope is
wet.  Take a look at long guy insulators on 50 KW AM stations--some
have corona rings--that's wild overkill for ham but the concept is
valid:  more insulation, less loss.  If the dipole is one lambda then
it's voltage fed so the center insulator should be more than a single
dinky dogbone, _in my opinion_.

It might be interesting to run a neon bulb along a dipole to see if it
dims along the way.  It has to be made sufficiently insensitive I
think.

73
Rob
K5UJ