Topband: Making low wires more visible de K0FF

[k6se@juno.com]

Tom, W8JI wrote:

Re: Beverages:
"Another cure is to not slope the ends, and bring them down along a thick
obstacle.  Six or ten feet of vertical drop is six or ten feet of drop,
whether in one small area or a 60 foot length. The response to vertically
polarized noise or signals is essentially the same, it just moves out
from the feedpoint a bit."
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That sounds reasonable, so I'll agree.
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"If you doubt that, consider the Pennant antenna. It works because the
pointed end acts like a second vertical, that picks up the same signal
level as the totally vertical wire at the other end. If it didn't, the
antenna would have only high angle horizontal component."
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I'm sure what Tom meant here is not that the pointed end of the Pennant
acts like a second vertical, but that the sloping top & bottom wires act
like a second vertical,  with their vertical components combining and
their horizontal components cancelling - at least this is how the model
shows it.

73, de Earl, K6SE


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