Topband: Anyone purchased the ARRL book on Short Antennas for 160???

[Mike Waters]

When I first got into amateur radio, I bought a lot of different antenna
books. And every so often, I would look at new ARRL Handbooks, antenna
books, etc. After awhile, you realize that
there are only so many basic and/or practical antenna designs.

However, I did run into an antenna design that was significantly different
(to me, anyway) last month, in an old article about inverted-Ls by L.B.
Cebik. He showed an inverted-L fed at the transition from vertical to
horizontal. Open-wire line ran down and away from it at a 45 degree angle.
Basically, it's a dipole with one wire horizontal and the other wire
hanging  down vertically, so no radials are required. It might be fun to at
least model it, if not actually try one on 160 or 80 sometime. The vertical
portion would have to be bent and run parallel to the earth in some cases.
Anyone here ever try one like it on 160?

Get ON4UN's book, if you don't have it.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Ron Settle <settleron at comcast.net> wrote:

> ... I could not make practical use out of any of it ... ON4UN's book is
> much more useful and valuable in my humble opinion.
>