[Antennas] Vertical

[Johnathan Corgan]

On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:41, cboone@earthlink.net wrote:

> It sure seems that way....a 90deg radiator (1/4 wave) is 36 ohms Z
> already....by shortening it, that causes the radiation resistance
> to LOWER more.....if lengthening the radials causes the Z to get
> back to 50 ohms, then you have increased ground loss and that is NOT
> as efficient as leaving it at full 1/4 wave length with 1/4wave
> radials.

I think you meant to say "if shortening the radials..."

Anyway, this is what occurred to me, glad to see I'm finally starting to grok 
black magic antenna theory to some extent :-)

73

Johnathan, AE6HO