Szczepan Bialek wrote:
Why than: "The ideal ground system forAM broadcasters comprises at least 120
buried copper or phosphor bronze radial wires at least one-quarter
wavelength long and a ground-screen in the immediate vicinity of the tower.
All the ground system components are bonded together, usually by welding,
brazing or using coin silversolder to help reduce corrosion". From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopole_antenna

Tell them that they are WRONG.
S*

It says "for AM broadcasters", not "for every transmitter".

Your conclusion that anything applying to a low frequency transmitter
for which it is impractical to build a balanced resonating antenna
applies to all transmitters in the universe is just wrong.