[TowerTalk] Peak Voltage at the Tip of Antennas

Pete Smith N4ZR pete.n4zr at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 15:08:23 EDT 2022


Not blaming Ed, but is this for real?  I wonder what all the 75 and 160M 
phone guys think of this?

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 10/20/2022 1:43 PM, Edward McCann wrote:
> “In the low-frequency band, bandwidth is quite scarce for any top-loaded
> antenna type and must be carefully evaluated in order to obtain
> good-quality speech transmission. In this band, this kind of antenna is
> practically the only choice, due to the antenna’s size. In the low end of
> the medium-frequency band, it is quite difficult to obtain a high-fidelity
> bandwidth.”


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