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On 2011-11-16 12:22 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 11/16/2011 12:10 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: >>> We are testing N3ND's new 160 antenna tonight (Monday local time) 1818 @ >>> 0005Z. This is another antenna based on RBN validated untraditional design. >>> 73, Guy. >> This is an up 70, over 60, down 5 wire fed via a feedline isolation >> transformer against a 5/16 wave single wire folded counterpoise at 8 >> feet. No radials. >> >> There is no way his small lot property could support a dense radial >> field, either buried or elevated. Therefore, presuming that undense >> irregular radials that would fit would be excessively lossy, per RBN >> data previously gathered, the +33, -33 foot linear folded counterpoise >> (FCP) is used instead, elevated at 8 feet. The folds in the >> counterpoise are designed to self-cancel fields as much as possible, >> thereby minimizing ground induction, which is loss to skywave > Is there more info available on this antenna? > > Especially a diagram (or crude drawing) of how things are > done would be appreciated. > > A NEC model would be fantastic, but I'd be more than happy > to prepare that from the crudest drawing anyone could send > me, and then make it available to everybody else :) > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK