[Towertalk] Shortening Inverted L Antennas

[ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE)]

Would not this then end up like one of Cibik's cap hats?  A square spiral?

Chris opr VE7HCB



At 11:00 AM 2002-07-23 -0600, n4kg@juno.com wrote:
>Another way to fit an Inverted L into limited space is to fold the
>end as needed, keeping the angle 90 degrees if possible.
>You already have one bend at the apex.  Another near the
>tail isn't going to hurt performance.
>
>An Antenna Analyzer goes a long way toward simplifying
>tuning / matching.
>
>Tom  N4KG