Topband: BOG question

[Mike Waters]

Exactly right, Tom.

Jim, if you go back and look at all the posts in this thread from the
beginning --which I should have done but didn't-- you'll see.

I was surprised that Frank and Tom 'made such an incorrect statement' (so I
wrongly assumed, that is) before we 'disagreed'. ;-)

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:

> None of it, including the cable type, affects the spacing of elements.
> That was Frank's point, and that was all he ever said.
>
> Somehow what Frank said was misconstrued into meaning something about the
> transmission line mode of waves in the antenna itself, which no one ever
> disagreed about. We all know, or should know, the Vp through the length of
> the antenna is affected by ground and dielectrics.
>
> Frank's statement was that the external wave was not affected by the Vf in
> the antenna, so the required spacing does not change between a BOG and any
> other antenna.
>