Ten Tec fans: In a recent article in Electric Radio Magazine, a former ARRL
employee of many years, Mr. Lew McCoy, explained why mobile antenna designs
like the "Texas Bug Catcher" are superior moble antennas. The reason is that
the large capacitive hat raises the current loop and therefore the radiation
near the top of the antenna. This greatly increases the efficiency of any
short, base fed antenna. Without a capacitive hat the current and therefore
the radiation is mainly concentrated near the base of the antenna and most is
wasted in heating earthworms. This was explained years ago in the old ARRL
book "The Mobile Manual for Radio Amateurs" , long out of print. -73's- K4OWN,
-Sherrill W.
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