Topband: Current, current, here's the current??

[Jon Zaimes AA1K]

Actually the screwdriver is a center-loaded antenna. The coil is exposed between the base tube (the bottom half of the radiator) and the "stinger" whip above it (the top half of the radiator). Inefficient as it is, mine has been good for 25 countries on Top Band the past year -- including VK3 and several Europeans with just 100 watts.

73/Jon AA1K

At 10:18 PM 5/20/03, you wrote:
>>I've placed a small article on my website at:
>>
>>http://www.w8ji.com/mobile_and_loaded_antenna.htm
>
>Tom,
>
>Good stuff.  
>
>I'm surprised that not more people are using top loaded top band mobile
>antennas with long small diameter coils. Perhaps it's because the screw
>driver (a base loaded antenna) has become so common place,