What Andy and Skip said, plus a top corner feed causes a pattern distortion in the broadside that narrows the beam width a bit. A bottom element feed through a parallel network has no pattern distortion but requires ground radials.
However you can put down a very minimal ground radial system compared to a 1/4 wave vertical. I used only one 1/4 wave on mine and it worked fine. 73, Thomas NZ4O Lakeland, FL, USA http://www.nz4o.org --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kf4hou" <kf4...@...> 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 > > > > > > 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 top phasing line was only 13 feet off of the ground with > > the antenna broadside Europe and the Pacific. The results: 100 countries in > > 30 days with 100 watts. A serious DX antenna. > > > > I also put up a half square on 160 in Colorado, with the same voltage feed. > > I linear loaded each 1/4 wave leg into two each 1/8 wave 64 foot sections > > and it worked fantastic. I had a big signal with 100 watts. > > > > 73 & GUD DX, > > Thomas F. Giella, NZ4O > > Lakeland, FL, USA > > nz4o@ > > > > > > NZ4O Amateur & SWL Autobiography: http://www.nz4o.org > > >
