[BC] Elevated radials

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Without a ground strap, yes, but not exactly.

Generally, there is a wide piece of strap to the tower(s), from the  
transmitter, transmitter building and the phasor.  The total current  
is unevenly splitting the current between the strap and the shield of  
the feed line.

Even with an elevated ground system one should still run strap between  
everything.  You would still want to have at least three ground rods  
connected to the bottom end of the arc gap for lightning protection.

--chip

On Jun 28, 2012, at 7:46 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 15
> From: Cowboy <curt at cwf1.com>
> [...]
> We often fall into the trap of thinking that the coax shield doesn't
> carry signal, but it does ! It carries the same "power" as the center
> conductor, but merely connects to the antenna differently.
> [...]
> Cowboy