[Elecraft] Portable Antennae

[G4ILO]

TR, WB6TMY, K2 S/N 838 wrote:
> 
> Especially tiresome is the oft-heard refrain that verticals radiate 
> poorly in all directions.  I'd like to point out that there are about 
> 6,000 AM Standard Broadcast Stations on the air in the United States, 
> and nearly all of them use verticals.  Since the 1920's the vertical 
> is one of the most thoroughly researched and documented antennas 
> known and they are VERY efficient.  By the way, few of them in the BC 
> service are resonant; engineers usually discuss them in degrees 
> of  electrical wavelength.
> 
Broadcast antennas have the benefit of working in the clear, and usually
with a very good ground system. Same with the verticals often used by
DXpeditions on the low bands, which are usually down on the sea shore
somewhere.

The same cannot be said of the average ham vertical operated from a suburban
back lot surrounded by trees, bushes, other houses etc. The wire antennas in
my very small attic work better than any vertical I ever tried.

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