Assuming your QTH in NM, poor ground (vs. salt water) the phased Beverages, long and short would be my preference. Yuri, K3BU.us www.TeslaRadio.org _______________________________________________ UR
Uhm, isn't BOG - Beverage On the Ground variety? What you describing is DOG - Dipole On Ground. I used to have BOG run as a long Beverage wire, mostly unterminated, just laying on the ground, or tuck
Sorry to hear about passing of John, W2JB, Top Gentleman, neighbor up on the hill and frequent top bander since the early days. For those wishing to see picture of John and few other topbanders pleas
Please check the updated Top Band records for CQ WPX contest.http://www.k3bu.us/topband_records.htmAny omissions or corrections, please let me know. Congrats to new record holders, good luck and cond
http://www.k3bu.us/cq_ww_wpx.htm Howdy WPXers, Here are the up-updated CQ WW WPX records for 160m. Empty slot for SSB is for Africa LP, one QSO would make a history :-) We can spruce up the record ta
Here some info on loading coils and current distribution in loaded resonant antennas. http://www.k3bu.us/loadingcoils.htm In the nutshell: efficiency is roughly proportional to the area under the cur
It depends...... I think George describes the situations well. What I have experienced, say at VE1ZZ: Jack has Eu Beverages, short, long, phased. He is on the rocky ground, close to salt water bay. T
On the subject of resonant loaded radiator - element please see my article at http://www.k3bu.us/loadingcoils.htm it took me some 40 years to realize wasaaap with loaded elements - current distributi
Not sure what you mean by fictional parts... I thought that I explained the "problem" with some historical development in my article. The main difference in understanding the efficiency of "loaded" a
He is not correct! Have you looked at the "piece" of wire - quarter wave antenna, having the max current at the base and ZERO at the tip? And voltage low at the base and high at the tip - corona? Wh
I do not want to start the argument all over again. One would expect people to read the material or argument carefully, trying to understand it and comment aproprietly. Just to set the record straigh
No, the original argument was: is the current at the ends of the loading coil (1/4 wave standing wave radiator) equal or is it diminishing at the top. The idea of "winding the antenna wire into the c
Thanks Dan, http://n3ox.net/files/nf.jpg this is the best visualization of what is happening on typical loaded antenna and that was the whole subject of controversy. The other camp and theoreticians
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I think you are seeing improvement in ground plane conductivity situation and it's effect on antenna. One half of the vertical is in the radials/ground. Using fewer and shorter radials handicaps the
What was happening, tide was changing length of "wire" between the feedpoint and water surface. Radials submerged in the salt water only "work" (connecting to water surface) to few inches below the s
Fellow Hams, We are in danger of losing perhaps the world's best radio location QTH - old WOO Ocean Gate, NJ AT&T Long Lines transmitting site. Just brief outline. The site is on the mouth of Toms Ri
Yea, there are high angle signals, anyone can verify that by having perhaps the simplest antenna - Inverted Vee at least some 30 ft up. Careful with interaction with other antennas within about 1 wav
IMHO word of caution: LB Cebik was a great modeler, has done lot of work modeling various antennas, configurations etc but have not built most of his models in real life with real wires and tubing. G