[digitalradio] Re: Half Square Antenna

2010-08-23 Thread kf4hou
Hey Tom Which is the better way of feeding the Half Square what is the plus and minus of both? Voltage vs. Current Fed I used a half square on 17 meters in Colorado in 1995 at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. I voltage fed it with a parallel LC network and one 1/4 wave radial. The flat

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Half Square Antenna

2010-08-23 Thread Andy obrien
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:29 AM, kf4hou kf4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hey Tom Which is the better way of feeding the Half Square what is the plus and minus of both? Voltage vs. Current Fed The antenna may be fed at the bottom or at a corner. When fed at a corner, the feed point is a

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Half Square Antenna

2010-08-23 Thread KH6TY
For what it's worth, I've done it both ways. With a voltage feed it is easy for the coax to leave the antenna on the ground and just use a screen for a ground. With current feed at the corners, the coax is up in the air and needs to leave at right angles to the vertical wire, but no tuned