Section 03
The Mast
A medium-wave mast is not a structure holding an antenna up. The steel is the radiator, insulated from the ground at its base, and the other half of the antenna is buried under the field in copper.
3 entries
Everything filed under The Mast
Every entry is one propagation or hardware fact and the operating consequence of it.
- The mast is the antennaA series-fed tower radiates as a whole and stands on an insulator, which is why its height is chosen in wavelengths rather than metres.Entry 03.1
- Ground radialsBuried copper doing half the work; a poor ground system wastes power no transmitter can make back.Entry 03.2
- The Blaw-Knox towerThe diamond cantilever, widest at its middle and balanced on a single base insulator.Entry 03.3
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