[TowerTalk] Bandwidth of a 1/4wl 80m vertical

[Rick Karlquist]

N7mal wrote:
> There are several 4 square arrays in daily DX, and contesting, use in
> W6-land. They all (that I'm familiar with)operate both SSB and CW. They
> use
> tuning at the verticals to achieve both SSB & CW.
> 73
>

Yes, of course you can always retune to cover the band.

Maybe you didn't notice that I said "with a fixed match."

> From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist
>
> 2.  No practical diameter is going to cover 3.5-4 MHz with a
> fixed match.

Rick N6RK