[Elecraft] 43 ft Vertical

[Radio Amateur N5GE]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:13:25 -0500, David Little <af5u at verizon.net>
wrote:

>The other half of this vertical antenna is the ground system. Without  
>that other half, you will be wasting your time and money on the first  
>half. The proof of this - you would never dream of putting up half of  
>a dipole. Hi Hi
>73, Dave Little, AF5U

Perhaps that is true about a Monopole Vertical which by the way CAN
have a ground system consisting of a ground rod, which is very
inefficient, unless standing in salt water.

The Half Sloper is an efficient wire antenna which uses a tower or
other grounded metal pole as it's other half, but in that
configuration the wire does not radiate a great deal.  The pole or
tower does the radiating.

See "The ARRL Antenna Book" or "ON4UN's Low-Band DXing".

Tom, N5GE

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