[TowerTalk] Verticals

[Rick Karlquist]

Tom Osborne wrote:
  What I was
> wondering,
> what happens if you put an end fed zepp antenna up vertically.  Feeding it
> at the bottom, just like if it was horizontal.  I'm sure the pattern would
> be totally different from a vertical.  You never see an all band antenna
> like that, vertical.  73 and Merry Christmas.
>
> Tom W7WHY

I am assuming "end fed zepp" refers to an end fed half wave.

I did a comparison of half wave verticals vs quarter wave verticals
posted at: http://www.n6rk.com/ground.pdf.  There is basically
no difference except that you don't need radials with the half wave vertical.

Rick N6RK