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[TowerTalk] Re: Vertical Dipoles and Ground Planes

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: Vertical Dipoles and Ground Planes
From: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (w8ji.tom)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:47:34 -0400
Hi Bill,

> Why is it that people that can copy an s3 signal at 35 wpm and get it ALL
> right, miss the key point in this thread from  W4RNL?
> 
> Every reference to his excellent work on this subject has apparently
> missed, or ignored, the fact that he is writing about VERTICAL DIPOLES,
not
> the common 1/4 wave vertical.  One of the big questions recently has been
> about the validity of the manufacturers claims that their particular
> vertical does not need radials- There has been LOTS of talk about the
need,
> and the claim that the DIPOLES do not need radials.

Just call me wooden ears. 

What point? It would help if someone plainly posted the "key point" alluded
to above.
Are you referring to something on a Web page?

73 Tom

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