[Lowfer] vertical

[Dexter McIntyre]

Bill,

If drooping top hat radials reduce the antenna's effective height NC has
been running a 25 foot antenna all season.  Think I should remove the 6
drooping wires and go for a full 15 meter antenna?

Dex 

Bill Ashlock wrote:
> 
> Eric,
> 
> >I'm thinking of making several loops about 12' long and then twist it >up.
> >Then I'll have a 12' twisted section with loops on each end, one >end
> >looped through my flange and the other end looped through my >electric
> >fence insulators.  From there, it's guy rope on down to the >anchors.
> 
> One of the problems with this approach is the reduction of the
> 'effective' height of the antenna due to the drooping top hat radials. This
> is because the vertical component of the current in the top hat is in the
> reverse direction of the current in the vertical mast and tends to cancel
> some of it. If you can guy the mast at a large angle to the the vetical (in
> other words reduce the doop of the wires) it will help.
> 
> Ahhhh, I long for the good old days of vertical antenna mounting. I'll make
> no comment on how much simpler the loop antenna is. <G>
> 
> Bill
>