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Logically .....
You may as well have a big loss in the near-field and get it over with.
> The only thing I would point out about the article is that it
> basically is a tabulation of model results, an extension of the model
> presentation, what do you get if you run the model over and over kind
> of thing. The modeling of dirt is in itself an attempt to extend a
> limited paradigm of MF measurements (aka commercial broadcast band),
> focused on measurements at the ground for very practical reasons
> (Norton-Sommerfield) and has its own set of well-known issues. It is
> quite common to model radial kinds of issues and then install a design
> and find quite different results. Dirt, and all its variability,
> remains notoriously resistant to being modeled. Modeling can, I say
> "can", get one in the neighborhood and it's back to cut and measure,
> and a degree of common sense.
>
> 73, Guy.
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Tony Estep <
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>> For those who wish to pursue the radials question further, here's one of
>> the
>> many publications on the subject. This one is replete with numerous
>> tables
>> and graphical representations of the incremental value of more and longer
>> radials in various types of soil:
>>
>>
http://www.ncjweb.com/k3lcmaxgainradials.pdf>>
>>
>>
>> Tony KT0NY
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