Re: 43' Vertical and the K2 tuner

Posted by alsopb on Mar 17, 2009; 3:27pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/43-Vertical-and-the-K2-tuner-tp2481408p2492037.html

Was it Gotham that used corrugated aluminum tubing?   Seem to remember
one antenna that we could never get the pieces apart.
The corrugations caused too much binding.  Nobody used Alumilox any such
thing in those days.

73 de Brian/K3KO
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>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,
>  
>

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