Wouldn't feeding it up high in the corner like that at least eliminate the need for radials?
73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Tom W8JI <w...@w8ji.com> wrote: > ... an inverted-L fed at the transition from vertical to horizontal. >> Open-wire line ran down and away from it at a 45 degree angle. Basically, >> it's a dipole with one wire horizontal and the other wire hanging down >> vertically, so no radials are required. It might be fun to at >> least model it, if not actually try one on 160 or 80 sometime ... >> > > When the antenna is less than 1/2 wave long, and if we do not change the > antenna configuration, we can move the feedline around in an antenna until > we turn blue and the only thing that changes is feed impedance. > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband