On 9/27/2010 5:31 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
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> Someone tried this antenna?<http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm>
> http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm
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> Jorge, I can't think of any design that would eliminate the need for a good
> ground under a 160 meter antenna. I looked at the article and it looks like
> the writer is just using another way, and a difficult one at best, of
> coupling RF to a vertical radiating tower. Why go through all the trouble
> when the tower is there already and can be be efficiently fed by much easier
> ways. Ground losses are ground losses and the only way they can be mitigated
> is with a ground radial system of some sort.
73,
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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