If the horizontal wires run parallel to each other, it will start to look like the old LF antennas Hams used before we moved into the "short waves". They typically had a number of horizontal wires running parallel held apart by spacers and erected as high as possible.
Those were really top-loaded verticals. The vertical 'feeder' wire did the radiating and all the wires up top provided capacitance to ground to help bring the antenna to resonance. Sometimes the 'feeder' was connected at one end of the top wires, and sometimes it was connected somewhere near the middle. (Resonance wasn't much understood in the very early days but the resonant frequency of the antenna is what determined the operating frequency of the spark transmitter. Somewhere in those dim distant days was probably when the idea of "bigger is better" for antennas first became a rule of thumb since bigger meant a lower operating frequency, and lower frequencies were thought to offer the best range.) If the horizontal wires go in various directions, their fields will interact to produce lobes of stronger signal or cancel to provide nulls, depending upon their lengths and angles. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- On the Inverted-L off topic, is there anything to be gained, or lost for that matter, by having more than one of the horizontal portion of the antenna? 73, Dick - KA5KKT ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
