[TowerTalk] skirt wires on a tower

[Tom Osborne]

Hi All

Tht didn't look like what I thought a folded unipole was.

I had an antenna here made out of 450 ohm open wire where I fed one side of 
the twinlead at the bottom (like a regular vertical) connected the 2 wires 
together at the top, then grounded the other side of the twinlead.  I 
thought that was a folded unipole.  73
Tom W7WHY



> There's a picture here:
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> http://radiomagonline.com/mag/radio_folded_unipole/
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> Jeff/KD4RBG
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>
> ---- Original message ----
>>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:34:27 -0500
>>From: "donhall161" <donhall161 at sbcglobal.net>
>>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] skirt wires on a tower
>>To: <n5pht at arrl.net>,<towertalk at contesting.com>
>>
>>Gary,
>>
>>Page 36 of The ARRL Antenna Compendium, Volume 2, has an article 
>>describing
>>this type of antenna. It uses three drop wires and skirts.
>>
>>The simpler single drop wire versions are described in numerous articles,
>>one of the first by Earl Cunningham, K6SE(SK), in The ARRL Antenna
>>Anthology, p34.
>>
>>I have used my LM354 with three drop wires for 75,80 and 160 in two
>>different locations. Results can be seen in my DXCC totals.
>>
>>73  Don  K5AQ
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