On 2/23/2022 6:07 AM, Naumann, Robert, W5OV wrote:
AD5X has written the complete 43' vertical article,
I've also addressed it, and from a somewhat different perspective. KK9A
is entirely correct that it gets increasingly too long above 20M because
of its vertical pattern tends increasingly higher, and becomes
increasingly inefficient on the lower bands because it's too short.
http://k9yc.com/43FtVertical.pdf
As N6BT famously showed by working all continents on a light bulb,
everything "works," but some things work a lot better than others.
73, Jim K9YC
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