In Bill Orr's book, there is a particularly vivid description of the corona. The part of the description that I particularly enjoyed was this,
"...the elements of the doomed beam glowed with the heat of the arc and turned incandescent at the tips. Large molten chunks of aluminum dropped to the ground as the inexorable fire slowly consumed the antenna." It would have less of a problem, had the antenna been at sea level. There's a freely viewable copy at All About Cubical Quad Antennas : William I. Orr : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive <https://archive.org/details/AllAboutCubicalQuadAntennas/page/n7> All About Cubical Quad Antennas : William I. Orr : Free Download, Borrow... All About Cubical Quad AntennasThe Famous Handbook on Quad Theory, Design, Construction and Operation <https://archive.org/details/AllAboutCubicalQuadAntennas/page/n7> On Thursday, December 6, 2018, 1:00:41 PM EST, Ken G Kopp < kengk...@gmail.com> wrote: > The quad came about at SWBC station HCJB in Quito. Due to the high > elevation their antenna was plagued with corona on the ends. The solution > was to join these ends together, forming the square (4-sided) antenna we > now know as the "quad". > 73 ! K0PP ______________________________________________________________ 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
