Topband: double L antenna

[Herb Schoenbohm]

On 9/27/2010 5:31 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM wrote:
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> Someone tried this antenna?<http://www.yccc.org/Articles/double_l.htm>
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> Jorge, I can't think of any design that would eliminate the need for a good ground under a 160 meter antenna.  I looked at the article and it looks like the writer is just using another way, and a difficult one at best, of coupling RF to a vertical radiating tower.  Why go through all the trouble when the tower is there already and can be be efficiently fed by much easier ways.  Ground losses are ground losses and the only way they can be mitigated is with a ground radial system of some sort.
73,

Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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