[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 63

[John/K4WJ]

Rick,

How high off the ground was the bottom of the bottom half of the vertical 
dipole?

73..de John/K4WJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
To: <k0rc at citlink.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 63


> Robert Chudek - K0RC wrote:
>> Jim Brown, K9YC wrote:  "BUT - in my experience, vertical dipoles don't
>> work very well on the HF bands."
>>
>
> It is difficult to feed a vertical dipole in the traditional
> way in the center without the feedline affecting the pattern.
> It is also tricky to feed it from the bottom, as a half wave
> vertical.  I did some direct A/B tests comparing a 1/4 wave
> vertical to a 1/2 wave vertical on 20 meters.  They were
> virtually indisinguishable, with maybe a slight edge going
> to the 1/2 wave vertical.  You can call that a vertical dipole
> if you want.  It had no radials by the way, while the 1/4 wave
> vertical had 32 1/4 wave radials. YMMV.
>
> Rick N6RK
>
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