On 2012-02-10, at 1:21 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > If any of you think an insulated radial field can just plopped down based on > a formula on just any plot of land and be efficient, think again. All that is > necessary to be abysmally INefficient is for the construction ground fill > underneath your sod to be variable in composition, or contain metallic pipes > or buried wires or a septic system. In this case your radials are no longer > ELECTRICALLY dense and uniform, current distribution becomes wacky, > effectively removing radials from the system, and the radial system has > become an unbalanced ground heater, and quite inferior to an elevated > counterpoise. (Sound familiar?) >
Hi Guy, All this talk about "idealized" radial systems, vs. "compromised" radial fields, hearkens me back to the words of an old Rolling Stones song, to whit: "You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need." I'll never have the proverbial "120 full-length radials" here (what I may want), so I'll just have to make do with my 24 one-eighth wave compromises (what I need---certainly better than no radials at all! Hi). ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
