Topband: Question about antenna bandwidth

Eddy Swynar deswynar at xplornet.ca
Sun May 6 13:20:33 PDT 2012


On 2012-05-06, at 2:42 PM, Rob Stampfli wrote:

> If I were to  extend my 1/4-wave inverted-L to a 3/8-wave L, and tune
> out the inductance with a fixed capacitor at the base, what would this
> do to the broadbandedness of the antenna?
> 

Hi Rob,

The 2:1 SWR points on my extended 3/8-wave inverted "L" elements are about 70-KHz apart...I have no idea what those points might be in a "regular" 1./4-wave vertical.

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ



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