[TowerTalk] Dayton Antenna Forum (contd.)

[Pete Smith]

At 12:17 PM 5/24/00 -0400, N2TK wrote:
>ON4UN mentioned in the beginning of his talk about the K5UI's use of <1/4
>wave length elevated radials to get equal currents in the radials. I don't
>believe John refuted or agreed with the use of shortened elevated radials
>during the rest of his talk, unless I missed it. Was hoping to run into
>ON4UN latter but missed him. Anyone hear anything on this in case I missed
>it during the talk?

The business about equal currents in the radials was there but I lacked the
context to fully "get it."  However, in any case he seemed to say quite
clearly that shortened or not, elevated radials aren't the way to go except
at the beach or over an excellent ground plane.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 



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