[TowerTalk] Question on Multiple Inverted L Antennas

[Don Havlicek]

Why not a SINGLE vertical wire, with three wires attached at the top of 
the vertical portion to tune for the three bands?
Seems someone could model this and give us some projections.
Don
N8DE

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