[TowerTalk] Vertical vs Beam

[Jim Brown]

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:37:37 -0400, Richards wrote:

>I would love to squeeze a half-wave 80 meter dipole on my city lot
>and I will buy a big steak dinner for the guy who figures out how I
>can!

No steak dinner needed, but check out 

http://www.freewebs.com/hypower/

Barry's longer loaded antennas (typically 60-70% of full size) work 
VERY well. The Limited Space antennna PPT includes NEC modeling of 
one of his antennas. It shows only 0.5dB lower efficiency and 
roughly half the SWR bandwidth on the loaded band. My app note also 
includes a reference to a piece in QST that tells how to design your 
own loaded dipole. 

73,

Jim Brown K9YC