[Elecraft] 43' Vertical and the K2 tuner

[Paul Christensen]

> Where Gotham stumbled badly was in promoting the fiction that radials
> weren't required on an (electrically) short vertical. To quote from 
> Gotham's
> January 1959 QST ad: "Are radials needed with a Gotham vertical? Answer: 
> No,
> except in a few rare occasions. 99% of the installations are done without
> radials."

Now throw the "then relatively new" monimatch SWR meter into the mix.  Add 
radials to the shortened base-fed vertical and watch line SWR increase.  To 
many novices, the thinking is that if the SWR is better without radials, 
then why use them?

Paul, W9AC