in my simplistic way of settting up an antenna, link coupling a tank circuit, the top of which is connected to a half wave long inverted L, the bottom of which (right now) is connected to a 5/16 wave FCP
I know what power goes out of the top of the coil must come into the bottom of the coil somehow. I have done all I can do to get the current portion of the antenna as far up and away from the ground that I can To avoid the FCP ground counterpoise problem altogether, I could center feed the L with coax to a link on the tank or up the turns on the link and feed it as an OCF dipole half way up the vertical leg. now no ground return is necessary on the tank curcuit I am not saying that if I had a perfect ground screen below the antenna that "that would not be a good thing to do" mike w7dra ____________________________________________________________ 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/501cc3369de6343361d17st04vuc _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK