[Antennas] comments on isotron antennas

[Hue Miller]

From: "Jim Shaw" <Jim@ShawResources.com>
To: "Hart Engel" <va3kis@hotmail.com>; <antennas@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: RE: [Antennas] comments on isotron antennas


> Hart
> The current issue of AntennaX has an article reviewing the ISOTRON.  Check
> it out at
>
>    http://www.antennex.com/
>
> Also, if your search the ARRL web site - WWW.ARRL.org - you'll find many
> articles etc on ISOTRON.

Maybe the above  was intended to be a private communication and not for the
list. If it's for the list as
a whole, maybe it might be a useful point to mention that most articles on
these sites are for
"members only".
BTW, i had a chance at a recent hamfest to handle the ISOTRON 20. I was
thinking, "Is this all there
is?"  Someone with some tools and materials could turn this out in their
garage in a couple hours at most.
All it seemed to be was a loading coil, a plate at one end of it ( capacity
hat ), coil goes to coax center and
coax shield goes to clamp that attaches to mast. This kind of antenna makes
me think of such things as
the "Joystick" antenna marketed in the 1970s and the claims for it, as well
as Kurt N. Sterba's komments
that actually, a grocery cart will work as an antenna also, when used with a
tuner.
Hue Miller