[BC] Elevated radials

[Mike McCarthy]

It's a ratio thing.  What is 1/4" at 450 is 450x that at 1Mhz.  Which translates to nearly 5' at 1500, 9'-4". at 1MHz and nearly 18ft. at 560.  BIG steel...

MM

On 6/26/2012 9:05 PM, James B. Potter wrote:
>Okey-dokey. So, before I open my text on or about pages 112-113 (thank you for saving me the research time), I understand that fatter towers or even wires at VHF and UHF are necessarily shorter than 234/MHz in order to resonate, and are broader in BW=lower Q. Yes? No?