[TowerTalk] Why radials improve radiation!

[pehaire]

Good point.  I once saw a diagram of a J or zepp that was bent 90 degrees at 
the junction of the quarter wave and the half wave.  He was using it as a 
vertical.

WA5MUE
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at frontier.com>
To: "Towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:18 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Why radials improve radiation!


>
> An end fed zepp is kinda like a J-pole stretchd out straight. That's why a 
> certain length feedline works best.  73
> Tom W7WHY
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> What about an end fed Zepp?  Fed with open wire.  I have read that it 
> thinks
> there is an immaginary 1/4 wave section where the feeder is terminate at a
> dead or insulator point.  I know this is a high impedance point on a zepp.
> A half wave vertical would need no radials  on that resonant frequency.
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