"Bill Turner" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:19:18 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

We have REPLACED lossy soil with lossless insulation.

But now there's no lossy soil in contact with the wire and most of the
loss
occurs in that layer of soil directly in contact with it. Given the wire
diameter and diameter over the insulation the improvement can be
calculated.

Make the wire insulation 6 feet thick and see what happens. You have
something like very low ground loss elevated radials.
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Reg, G4FGQ

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Are we talking about buried or elevated radials? I had assumed buried
since elevated radials would have no contact with the soil at all.

As I see it, with buried radials the RF must still penetrate the earth
to get to the radials, so whether there is insulation or not, the earth
loss would still be there. Am I wrong?

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Bill, W6WRT
QSLs via LoTW

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Yes Bill, in my opinion your argument is wrong. But we could go on for ever
like this.
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Reg.