The other half of the antenna is the braid of your coax unless you use an unun and connect the antenna to something like the ship superstructure or the sail of a submarine. I used a 114 ft wire connected to the sail of a sub this weekend and it worked pretty well, but not nearly as well as my SteppIR. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ
________________________________ From: "Mark, KJ7BS" <kj...@cox.net> To: "plama...@verizon.net" <plama...@verizon.net>; David Little <a...@verizon.net>; Elecraft <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 1:27:36 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 43 ft Vertical "The proof of this - you would never dream of putting up half of a dipole. Hi Hi" Sure. It's called an End Fed Half Wave dipole. Oh, but to some, that's not an antenna. -- Mark, KJ7BS Glendale, AZ Editor, The SKCC Centurion Elecraft K2 S/N 0539 Fists # 2972 CC 1806 SKCC # 2240 C56 T20 MQFD # 128 QRP-ARCI # 12647 AZ ScQRPions COGRC Emergency Communications---- David Little <a...@verizon.net> wrote: ============= The other half of this vertical antenna is the ground system. Without that other half, you will be wasting your time and money on the first half. 73, Dave Little, AF5U ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
