Re: [TowerTalk] Breakall short vertical

[Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>]

At 03:28 PM 6/11/2004, Rick Karlquist wrote:

> Note that the article talks about the Kintronic
> being 1/5 the height of a monopole, but in the
> actual tests, it was about 1/3 the height of the
> monopole.  Basically, it's just a top hat loaded
> cage vertical.  The short height works fine as long as
> you have an excellent ground (which they do) and you
> can tolerate narrow BW (that's FB on the BCB).


The SWR bandwidth (at least modeled) isn't too bad: ~ 100 kHz at 160M 
between 2:1 points.

73, Pete N4ZR
The World HF Contest Station Database
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