Good point. I once saw a diagram of a J or zepp that was bent 90 degrees at
the junction of the quarter wave and the half wave. He was using it as a
vertical.
WA5MUE
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From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com>
To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:18 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Why radials improve radiation!
>
> An end fed zepp is kinda like a J-pole stretchd out straight. That's why a
> certain length feedline works best. 73
> Tom W7WHY
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> What about an end fed Zepp? Fed with open wire. I have read that it
> thinks
> there is an immaginary 1/4 wave section where the feeder is terminate at a
> dead or insulator point. I know this is a high impedance point on a zepp.
> A half wave vertical would need no radials on that resonant frequency.
>
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