Topband: phasing two verticals

Ken Brown ken.d.brown at verizon.net
Sun Jun 19 05:47:28 EDT 2005


> the discussion is about VA3EF's
>non-identical verticals, i.e., a shunt-fed tower and an inverted-L.  
>  
>
In that case, even if you do get the currents equal in magnitude and in 
the correct phase relative to each other at the feed points, the current 
distribution over the whole of each vertical is not necessarily the 
same, nor is the radiation efficiency of the two elements equal. So you 
would not get "textbook results". My guess is that you would still get 
gain, at much reduced front to back ratio.

DE N6KB




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