[Antennas] Vertical

[Johnathan Corgan]

On Saturday 28 September 2002 10:54, Charles Greene wrote:

> I made the radiator slightly short and the radials about 2' long to bring 
> up the feed impedance to 50 ohms

I'm curious (and confused) how this works.

My (naive) assumption would be that the feedpoint impedance is increasing 
because the "ground" resistance is increasing from the shorter radials.  
While obtaining a better match to 50 ohm coax, doesn't this just mean that 
the antenna is less efficient due to the increased ground losses?

I could be way off base--it wouldnt' be the first time :-)

73

Johnathan, AE6HO