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

[Charlie Cunningham]

Well, you'd have a "slant" or "tilt" polarized radiator. You could make the
top horizontal wire a 1/4 wavelength and let it be an elevated radial and
treat the vertical wire (probably bent horizontal at some lower altitude) as
a vertical radiator, but you'd still have a "tilt" polarized radiator
because of the horizontal and vertical high currents at high elevations.

Charlie, K4OTV

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Waters
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:13 PM
To: Tom W8JI
Cc: topband
Subject: Re: Topband: Anyone purchased the ARRL book on Short Antennas
for160???

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.
>
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