Topband: Anyone purchased the ARRL book on Short Antennas for160???

[Mike Waters]

Wouldn't feeding it up high in the corner like that at least eliminate the
need for radials?

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:

>   ... 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 ...
>>
>
> When the antenna is less than 1/2 wave long, and if we do not change the
> antenna configuration, we can move the feedline around in an antenna until
> we turn blue and the only thing that changes is feed impedance.
>