For a good number of years I did allot of experimenting with 1/2 wave inverted
L's and T's on 160 meters with no ground system and had very good results.
I published a web page about it at http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o9.htm
One night on 160 meters with 100 watts on SSB I got a 10 over S9
What Andy and Skip said, plus a top corner feed causes a pattern distortion in
the broadside that narrows the beam width a bit. A bottom element feed through
a parallel network has no pattern distortion but requires ground radials.
However you can put down a very minimal ground radial system
Tom, with voltage feed, you only need an electrostatic ground. I used
about 10' x 10' of chicken wire for a ground sheet under mine in Hawaii.
73, Skip KH6TY
Thomas wrote:
What Andy and Skip said, plus a top corner feed causes a pattern
distortion in the broadside that narrows the beam
Hey Tom
Which is the better way of feeding the Half Square what is the plus and minus
of both? Voltage vs. Current Fed
I used a half square on 17 meters in Colorado in 1995 at the bottom of the
sunspot cycle. I voltage fed it with a parallel LC network and one 1/4 wave
radial. The flat
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:29 AM, kf4hou kf4...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hey Tom
Which is the better way of feeding the Half Square what is the plus and minus
of both? Voltage vs. Current Fed
The antenna may be fed at the bottom or at a corner. When
fed at a corner, the feed point is a
For what it's worth, I've done it both ways. With a voltage feed it is
easy for the coax to leave the antenna on the ground and just use a
screen for a ground. With current feed at the corners, the coax is up in
the air and needs to leave at right angles to the vertical wire, but no
tuned
