'Twas stated: "Feedline coax shield 1.7 ohms.
The single 1.7 ohms lowers the voltage and even in this case of what appears to be an excellent ground radials system, the coax will carry HALF the counterpoise current and waste most of that power, besides being a link...(etc.)" Whaaat??? Where did that 1.7 ohm figure come from....space? The size (gauge) of radial wires has very little effect on their effectiveness as radials, according everything I've ever read. Also, effective resistance to ground, due to such intimate coupling to earth when radials are at the surface or buried, evens out their equivalent resistances and reactances, rendering them "un-tuned." Not comparable to elevated radials at all. Voltage and current nodes on surface or buried radials are smoothed and averaged out rendering them un-problematic. If no balun, including a choke-type, is used at the feedpoint of a vertical then the coax braid simply counts as another radial, averaged in with the many. Ferrites at the shack end can attenuate any residual RF on the braid if it is troublesome there (unlikely). 73, Roy K6XK Iowa _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK