In article .com,
Joe wrote:

Richard...I'm telling you one of the worlds top antenna designers
lives here and I just happened to be lucky enough to get his help
setting up my radios. If he tells me tarnished silver is the best for
HF I take his word for it..If our goverment flys him all over the
earth to design develope and set up the best....that's good enough
reference for me.

Joe

Your Designer Friend is certainly speaking from experience. The
Experience of a Job that has little monitary consideration. The rest of
the non-commercial boaters of the world may not need the "Money is no
Object" design, where the difference between Tarnished Silver, and
plain old Copper Foil, could possibly be significant, to the RF Ground
for their MF/HF Antenna System. Larry's observation that the Series
Impedance of the RF Ground, is considerably MORE significant, than the
Resistance difference, between Tanished silver and Copper Foil, in
the Total RF Ground Impedance of the Antenna System.

Bruce in alaska who has designed and installed RF Ground Systems
for LF/MF/HF Radio Stations on Land and at Sea
for the last 40 Years.... and inspected them
for Regulatory Agencies, in the past.....
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