[TowerTalk] 40 meter vertical beam

[Bob Harmon]

Tom,
The reflector should be floating
like the dipole driven element.
You are creating a 2 element yagi only in vertical arrangement 

Bob
K6UJ

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> On Feb 17, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Tom Osborne <w7why at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> HI All
> 
> I have a 40 meter vertical dipole that i"d like to put a reflector behind (or maybe a switchable reflector/director combo).
> 
> What I'm wondering is - do I ground the base of the reflector with radials, or leave it floating free?  It would be a half-wave wire. Thanks and 73
> 
> Tom W7WHY
> 
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