Re: OT - Interesting Accident with Homebrew Vertical

Posted by Bill W4ZV on Feb 04, 2010; 12:44pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/OT-Interesting-Accident-with-Homebrew-Vertical-tp4511024p4513246.html

Bill W4ZV wrote

N4KG used an interesting variation of this idea to feed a **grounded** tower on 160.  He made four elevated 1/4 wave radials, attached the coax center conductor to the radials and the shield to the tower at the same point (up from the base several feet).  If I recall this was in previous editions of the ARRL Antenna Handbook but I'm not sure it's in the latest edition.

See Figure 28 on page 6-16 (Low Frequency Antennas chapter) of 20th edition.  In newer editions you can probably find it by searching the index for N4KG.

73,  Bill