[Towertalk] Shortening Inverted L Antennas
Chris BONDE
ve7hcb@rac.ca
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:02:07 -0700
Would not this then end up like one of Cibik's cap hats? A square spiral?
Chris opr VE7HCB
At 11:00 AM 2002-07-23 -0600, n4kg@juno.com wrote:
>Another way to fit an Inverted L into limited space is to fold the
>end as needed, keeping the angle 90 degrees if possible.
>You already have one bend at the apex. Another near the
>tail isn't going to hurt performance.
>
>An Antenna Analyzer goes a long way toward simplifying
>tuning / matching.
>
>Tom N4KG