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

[Wes Stewart]

I just have one question: What is grass?

--- On Mon, 12/20/10, Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 
> Many people are adopting a construction technique as
> primary over
> performance considerations, e.g. lay out wire and hold them
> down with
> lawn staples and let the grass grow up around them, holding
> them in
> suspension OVER the dirt, rather than notching them DOWN
> INTO the
> dirt. Grass supported bare wire radials will exhibit tuned
> characteristics and a higher velocity factor than buried
> bare radials.