[TowerTalk] Question on Multiple Inverted L Antennas

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Wed Jul 12 17:47:33 EDT 2006


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:36:07 -0500, hasan schiers wrote:

>Fanning them out from the base up to the tie point 
>and separating them a foot or two at the top end might work? Same principle 
>as a "fan" dipole for 80/40, no?

Yes. The antenna described in my earlier post, which is somewhere between an 
inverted L and a top loaded vertical, worked quite well on 80 and 160, but was 
quite poor on 40. So while a fan would certainly work, and work quite well, it 
might be fancier than you need to get. 

Jim K9YC




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