[Elecraft] OCF antennas and baluns??

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Right Phil! A "top loaded vertical" can work very well indeed, =
particularly
on the lower bands where a lot of ops have trouble getting a horizontal
antenna up close to 1/2 wavelength high for best low-angle radiation.

Even though that may not have been what Windom had in mind when he =
designed
his single-wire feed system, that's exactly what a Windom becomes on any =
but
it's design frequency and they have a great track record with a mix of
vertical and horizontal radiation.

I use an inverted L on the lower bands, which is much the same sort of
antenna. It does a much better job for me than a low dipole.=20

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
My antenna was 135 ft long on a 40x50 lot -- very gerrymandered -- and=20
10-15 ft high.  Radiation from the feed wire may have been the best I=20
had ;-)

No matter: Worked well on 80-40-20 CW.

73, Phil