The only real way to tell is have one of each, and do many instant A-B comparisons over a period of time.
I just have two 10'+ high elevated radials on my bottom-fed L. It seems to work "well", but I should add more radials this summer. And that's what I'll probably do before I ever build one of those. http://www.w0btu.com/160_meters.html#inv-l_antenna 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Gary and Kathleen Pearse <pea...@gci.net>wrote: > I've built them for 40 and 80 via his modeling years ago. Fed both up > high, and both down low. High feed 'seemed better', but no real way to > tell. Worked a RU station on 80 from KL7 so they do emit a signal. It was a > good aerial, easy to build, with some vertical component to the pattern. > > On 160 it may take some bending. Fed low it's a vert with an elevated > radial. Two would be better, but then so would four and so on. > > 73, Gary NL7Y > > > Wouldn't feeding it up high in the corner like that at least eliminate > the > > need for radials? > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband