[BC] Smallest AM Radiator

[Bailey, Scott]

Gary,
   Were they using a folded unipole or series feed?  If it was a series feed, yep the coverage would have been terrible. They should have used a unipole for that application, and then they would have found the coverage would have been much better. Sounds like to me the radials didn't do you much good lying over the rock.  The antenna would have been great with a unipole and a counterpoise ground system.


Scott


I am operating on memory mode here.  Maybe, a dozen years ago, I was hired
to measure base impedance on KFCR, Custer, SD.  They had been dark for some
time and were required to submit a new measurement before they could resume
broadcasting.  The tower was 80 or 90 ft. of Rohn 25.  The area was so rocky
(including big boulders) that burial of radials was not in the cards.  The
radials were stretched out over the rocks.  The coverage sucked.

Gary, K?CX
Rapid City, SD


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