** Towards the end of the above reference mention was made of a Mexican BC station using a slanting parasitic reflector (probably wire) in conjunction with its vertical tower radiator. Have Topbande
Yup!! Hmm - some of that sounds like the Spitfire array which uses half wave elements - bent into a triangle shape. http://www.yccc.org/Articles/Spitfire/spitfire.htm I have had good results with qu
Yes, there are several parasitic arrays in use on the band. Mine started out in 1998 as a "K3LR" array (described in ON4UN's "Low band antennas" book) with a central tower as the driven element and