[Antennas] EH-Antenna Test Article On eham.net

Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:06:29 +0300

-----Original Message-----
From: Linden, Mike (BRC-Hes) <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: 02 April 2003 23:44
Subject: [Antennas] EH-Antenna Test Article On eham.net

>  Here's an article on some real EH-antenna testing! The results pretty
much
>confirm that it is an HF Rubber Ducky. Per the author, one way of looking
at
>the results is that 100w into a 20m EH-antenna is equivalent to about 1w
>into a 1/2-wave dipole. If nothing else, these tests confirm the viability
>of QRP operations on HF (hi)!
>
>http://www.eham.net/articles/5002
>

Sorry Mike, you left out the next sentence:

Sounds like quite a compromise, but then, most people using an E-H probably
don't have room or permission to install a �-wavelength dipole, which, on 20
meters, would be more than 33' long and need to be 33' above ground to work
like a dipole.

Paul M.