[TowerTalk] Was "43ft Vertical Feeding

[jimlux]

David Jordan wrote:
> The high voltage appears at the tip of the vertical, where the corona ball
> goes. I believe the feedpoint is the high current portion of the antenna
> where most of the radiation starts...
> 
only on a 1/4 wave antenna. Short antennas or Antennas close to a 
multiple of a half wavelength at the operating frequency can have very 
high voltages at the feedpoint.