When I first got into amateur radio, I bought a lot of different antenna books. And every so often, I would look at new ARRL Handbooks, antenna books, etc. After awhile, you realize that there are only so many basic and/or practical antenna designs.
However, I did run into an antenna design that was significantly different (to me, anyway) last month, in an old article about inverted-Ls by L.B. Cebik. He showed an inverted-L fed at the transition from vertical to horizontal. Open-wire line ran down and away from it at a 45 degree angle. Basically, it's a dipole with one wire horizontal and the other wire hanging down vertically, so no radials are required. It might be fun to at least model it, if not actually try one on 160 or 80 sometime. The vertical portion would have to be bent and run parallel to the earth in some cases. Anyone here ever try one like it on 160? Get ON4UN's book, if you don't have it. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Ron Settle <[email protected]> wrote: > ... I could not make practical use out of any of it ... ON4UN's book is > much more useful and valuable in my humble opinion. > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
