[Elecraft] Inverted-L (was OT: Vertical antenna)

[WILLIS COOKE]

Dick, my research would say probably not.  The exception would be if your lot is 
such that you could run more than one shorter wire and can't run a single one.  
Also you might be able to make a capacity hat with the top guys broken by 
insulators and not need another support.  The antenna would then be known as a T 
top or Capacity Hat type vertical.  In any case the horizontal wires do not 
contribute much to the radiation pattern but do help raise the radiation 
resistance, increase the band width and bring the short vertical wire to 
resonance.  The choice seems to me to be primarily for installation convenience 
which varies from QTH to QTH.  



 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




________________________________
From: "Edward Dickinson, III" <softblue at windstream.net>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, December 20, 2010 12:16:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Inverted-L (was OT: Vertical antenna)

On the Inverted-L off topic, is there anything to be gained, or lost for
that matter, by having more than one of the horizontal portion of the
antenna?


73,
Dick - KA5KKT

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