Re: [IRCA] Copper/Radials

["Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > There have been tests that show as few as six elevated radials can
> > equal a full buried 120 radial system.  I have not see the setup, but
> > the 640 Disney station in the Philadelphia market uses these.  From
> > speaking with their consultant, it works well.
>
> *** I haven't bene over there although it probably would be only a
> minor detour along the way to/from LBI. Might be interesting to look
> at.

Might well be.  I think they simply took some 1/4" guy cable and ran it from
the tower base to some poles at the perimeter of the circle surrounding the
tower.  The ends are insulated with the fiberglass rod-type ones as used by
the power company.

> Is their consultant perhaps my old friend Ted Schober ?

Nope.  It's a fellow from Texas.  I don't want to give out his name without
his permission, but it isn't Ted Schober.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI


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