On 2-Jul-05, at 10:47 AM, Paul Gates wrote:
Why is it not suited on a deck?
Paul
Because it relies on capacitive coupling to ground to form the
other half of your antenna. It could be used on a deck simply
as a mount but then you would have to attach some sort of
tuned counterpoise to it.
When mounted on the ground no radials are necessary.
Michael VE3WMB
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