[Lowfer] Aerial Type Designation, help please.

w8au at sssnet.com w8au at sssnet.com
Mon Mar 23 21:57:33 EDT 2009


At 08:47 PM 3/23/2009, you wrote:
>         Don't know if there's an "official" name but certainly 
> Marconi and others used such a configuration "way back when".
>
>"I am trying to find the correct name for an aerial described thus:-
>
>Four vertical support masts, A, B, C & D in rotation. With two wires - one
>between A & C, the other between B & D. The two wires are joined where they
>bisect each other. At this bisection joint, a vertical wire drops down to
>the transmitter or tuning unit beneath.  Thus, a vertical monopole with a
>crossed top-hat, but is there a more professional designation?

Just a version of the "Marconi T."  A vertical with capacity hat.

Perry  w8au




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