[TowerTalk] Peak Voltage at the Tip of Antennas

[Lux, Jim]

On 10/20/22 12:08 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> 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.”

Physically short antennas for MW (implied by top load) could be quite 
narrow band.  "high fidelity" would be 10kHz BW.  that's 1% at 1 MHz and 
2% at 500 kHz.

If he's talking real LF (e.g. 100 or 300kHz, getting 10kHz BW with a 
toploaded system would be challenging).