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

[David Gilbert]

It's that ugly green stringy stuff some people use to hide their 
beautiful brown dirt so that nobody tries to steal it.

Dave, AB7E

QTH not far from N7WS



On 12/20/2010 10:37 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> 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.