Ron,
What you've come to understand is absolutely false except for the special case of a long wire close to the ground. That special case is called a Beverage antenna that radiates vertically polarized radiation off the ends. When you raise a long wire antenna more than about 0.05 wavelengths above the ground, horizontal polarized radiation becomes dominant and the radiation pattern always has a deep null off the ends. 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <r...@cobi.biz> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 4:08:40 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Long wire antennas Understand that a true "long wire" (greater than 1 wavelength) starts to be directional off of its end (if fed at one end, that's the opposite end). 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rich Arland Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:02 PM To: William Levy; Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Long wire antennas And in a previous posting Sir William of Levy stated: "COSMIC rule of antennas! The more wire the better. Always." Hear....Hear!!!!! Dilly, Dilly!!!! Right arm, dude!!!! Vy 73 es gud DX! Rich Arland K7SZ Cogito ergo CQ (I think therefore, I HAM) ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to r...@cobi.biz ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to donov...@starpower.net ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
