Topband: comparison

[Jim Brown]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:57:12 -0600, Kevin Schavee wrote:

>Has any one modeled the difference between Inverted L and full size
>1/4 wave 160m antennas?

The biggest difference you can make is with radials. The shorter 
your antenna, the more important it is to have more radials. They 
don't need to be long, they don't need to be uniform, they just need 
to be there. More is better, longer is better, more is more 
important than longer. :)

73,

Jim K9YC