Dick, my research would say probably not. The exception would be if your lot is
such that you could run more than one shorter wire and can't run a single one.
Also you might be able to make a capacity hat with the top guys broken by
insulators and not need another support. The antenna would then be known as a T
top or Capacity Hat type vertical. In any case the horizontal wires do not
contribute much to the radiation pattern but do help raise the radiation
resistance, increase the band width and bring the short vertical wire to
resonance. The choice seems to me to be primarily for installation convenience
which varies from QTH to QTH.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ
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From: "Edward Dickinson, III" <
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Sent: Mon, December 20, 2010 12:16:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Inverted-L (was OT: Vertical antenna)
On the Inverted-L off topic, is there anything to be gained, or lost for
that matter, by having more than one of the horizontal portion of the
antenna?
73,
Dick - KA5KKT
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