On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:07:15 -0500 Don Havlicek <n8de@thepoint.net>
writes:
> > You only need to get it 30 feet or so off the ground to
> minimize ground capacitance effects.
>
> Thirty feet? .. for 20m? That's not even 1/4 wavelength
I lost track of who is who in all the arrows here,
BUT, 1/4 WL on 14 MHz is ( 984 / 14 ) / 4 = 17.6 ft
30 ft is 0.42 WL on 20M
Tom N4KG
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