Dick, my research would say probably not. The exception would be if your lot is such that you could run more than one shorter wire and can't run a single one. Also you might be able to make a capacity hat with the top guys broken by insulators and not need another support. The antenna would then be known as a T top or Capacity Hat type vertical. In any case the horizontal wires do not contribute much to the radiation pattern but do help raise the radiation resistance, increase the band width and bring the short vertical wire to resonance. The choice seems to me to be primarily for installation convenience which varies from QTH to QTH.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ ________________________________ From: "Edward Dickinson, III" <softb...@windstream.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Mon, December 20, 2010 12:16:53 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Inverted-L (was OT: Vertical antenna) On the Inverted-L off topic, is there anything to be gained, or lost for that matter, by having more than one of the horizontal portion of the antenna? 73, Dick - KA5KKT ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
