[Elecraft] Small QRP antenna

[Bill Johnson]

Mike,  
Over the years I have come to know Don as always succinct and to the point.
AND, he does know his stuff nearly 100% or he will not comment.  He will not
waste his time responding to this accolade.  We go back to the K2 field test
and he was much a pleasure to work with then as now.  Oh, I and I think his
knowledge and writing skill has improved with age!

73,
Bill
K9YEQ

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike
Morrow
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:09 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Small QRP antenna

Don wrote:

> A 1/2 wave radiator fed at the end theoretically does not need any 
> counterpoise, but in practice it does - but only needs to be about 
> 0.05 wavelength long.
>
> Refer to some antenna books (the ARRL has a good one) or the ARRL 
> Handbook for good information about basic antennas.

The concise clarity of Don's input to this thread is refreshing.  Such seem
to occur rarely in ham discussions about antennas.

With respect to classical end-fed half-wave antennas, I think of the end-fed
Zepp[elin] and the common VHF J-poles.

Mike / KK5F
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