[Milsurplus] Inverted L antenna

[Bob Camp]

Hi

It’s also a pretty easy “wire between two trees” sort of antenna to set up. That makes it a good candidate for field use on a military radio. 

Bob

> On Feb 26, 2025, at 5:41 PM, Dennis Monticelli <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In a 1/4 wave inverted L the horizontal part carries little current so it does serve mostly to add capacitance.
> 
> A 3/4 wave inverted L is different.  It delivers omnidirectional vertically polarized radiation from the vertical portion and dipole-like horizontally polarized radiation from its horizontal portion.  On 40M a common arrangement is about 33' up and 67' across, though the 2:1 radio is not important, rather it's the length for resonance.
> 
> For more info see my QST article in the July 1991 issue.  "A Simple Effective Dual-Band Inverted L Antenna."  It was also included in the ARRL Handbook for 2000 and other years.
> 
> Dennis Monticelli AE6C
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