[TowerTalk] One more ground radial question

[Rob Atkinson, K5UJ]

Dear Paul:

I apologize if I inadvertently denigrated your suggestion regarding ununs.  
However, I advise you to dial down your sensitivity level.  I do not believe 
I ever wrote anything that cast aspersions on the method you proposed.  I am 
sure your method is legitimate; it is merely not what I would do, that is 
all.  I am just a guy who enjoys messing around with ham radio, who gave an 
opinion on how I would proceed, in an attempt to help someone with a 
problem.   I am not an antenna theory Ph.D. or any other expert so I think 
you are giving too much weight to my advice, more even than I give it.  I 
wouldn't be surprised if I am right about 50% of the time, maybe less.  I am 
sure there will be those with more knowledge and experience who will correct 
me if what I wrote was incorrect.  That is the beauty of a public forum for 
ideas, we all learn something, especially me.  I do not know you and have 
never met you--I assure you an ulterior motive to cast you in a bad light 
was entirely beyond my thinking.

To answer your question:  I have never used an unun in the manner you 
describe.  I have also never operated with an inverted L and have never used 
a feedpoint matching network.   My advice was based on what I have read over 
time; this led me to believe that a matching network would have a wider 
range and the potential for better power transfer.  I probably should have 
confined my advice to knowledge from direct experience and done a better job 
of suppressing my ego.  My apologies.

Rob Atkinson
K5UJ

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