On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:13:25 -0500, 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. The proof of this - you would never dream of putting up half of >a dipole. Hi Hi >73, Dave Little, AF5U Perhaps that is true about a Monopole Vertical which by the way CAN have a ground system consisting of a ground rod, which is very inefficient, unless standing in salt water. The Half Sloper is an efficient wire antenna which uses a tower or other grounded metal pole as it's other half, but in that configuration the wire does not radiate a great deal. The pole or tower does the radiating. See "The ARRL Antenna Book" or "ON4UN's Low-Band DXing". Tom, N5GE K3 #806 with SUB RX, PR6, KRC2 and K144XV K3 #1055 with PR6 and XV432 W1, 2 W2's and other small kits QCWA Life Member 35102 n...@n5ge.com http://www.n5ge.com http://www.swotrc.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
