Re: 43' Vertical and the K2 tuner

Posted by P.B. Christensen on Mar 17, 2009; 2:59pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/43-Vertical-and-the-K2-tuner-tp2481408p2491848.html

> Where Gotham stumbled badly was in promoting the fiction that radials
> weren't required on an (electrically) short vertical. To quote from
> Gotham's
> January 1959 QST ad: "Are radials needed with a Gotham vertical? Answer:
> No,
> except in a few rare occasions. 99% of the installations are done without
> radials."

Now throw the "then relatively new" monimatch SWR meter into the mix.  Add
radials to the shortened base-fed vertical and watch line SWR increase.  To
many novices, the thinking is that if the SWR is better without radials,
then why use them?

Paul, W9AC

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