[Lowfer] Re:helically loaded verticals

Mike Staines [email protected]
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:17:18 -0500


> You are right on this last point, although the properties of the ground
> may be different.  One of my antenna-designing friends at Hughes - Don
> Bostrom, N6IC - used to build little scale models of beams and stuff and
> test them at UHF, with very usable results.
>
> Ed

About two years ago, someone (Bill Bowers?) wrote an article in the Lowdown
about modeling LF antennas at higher (read: easier to construct)
frequencies. Theory and actual measurements were presented and the scaling
mapped rather well.

73,
Mike
wa1ptc
Concord, NH