Static voltages on the guy insulators of m.f. and i.f. broadcast tower antennas

A new approximate method for calculating the static voltages on the guy insulators of m.f. and i.f. broadcast tower antennas is given. The method is based on an integral-equation technique, where the integral equation is solved by the so-called point matching method; the unknown charge densities are approximated by polynomials. The polynomial expansion provides very significant advantages, primarily because it leads to the integrals in closed form, and because itrequires a very low order of polynomial. A numerical example is given to illustrate the method.