[TenTec] OCF Antennas - Which commercial antenna is gest?

[Mike Bryce]

Why the nitrogen?

Last time I had tires replaced the guy wanted me to have the tires filled with Nitrogen. Said I’d get better gas mileage and would prevent ingrown toenails.

 
Mike Bryce WB8VGE

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> On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Clayton Brantley via TenTec <tentec at contesting.com> wrote:
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> What antenna is BEST????   Very good question.  I worked for a few years with Al Henderson ex K6AJ now a SK.He made antennas for the navy and a few other users.  Most were verticals that would tune to 1/4 wave length inside 
> some special piping that was filled with nitrogen.  These things would run north of $10k!  Worked like a champ too.He had pictures of his antennas mounted on aircraft carriers.
> Now to the point of this discussion, Al told me the impedance of free space is 377 ohms and that is why the quad antennais such a good antenna.  He maintained that an antenna could be simply thought of as a transformer to bring the outputof the transmitter from 50 ohms to 377 ohms.  The biggest part of the antenna that is near the "magic 377 ohms" worksthe best.
> I know this might be a bit off the original topic, but thought I'd toss Al's ideas out and see what others think.
> 73 Clayton N4EV
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