[TowerTalk] C31 ant file - query

[Barry Kutner]

If this 1/4 " stuff is based on modelling, something is most likely 
wrong with the model - either not enough segments, some kind of 
rounding error, or who knows what else.

If it's based on an actual antenna, I hope the wind never blows!

73 Barry

On 23 Feb 00, at 14:37, 00tlzivney@bsuvc.bsu.edu wrote:

> 
> K2AV claims that some of the dimensions of the C31XR are critical to
> 1/4" - this seems to be extremely uncommon in a HF antenna - given
> that the holes to adjust a C3 are 1" apart for adjustment purposes! 
> And the swaying of the elements in the breeze could conceivably change
> the effective spacing by at least that amount.  
> 
> I would be disinclined to purchase a HF antenna that required that
> degree of accuracy to make it work.
> 
> Terry Zivney, N4TZ/9
> n4tz@arrl.net
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