Apropos of the OCF conversation, and considering that Elecrafters are lovers of portable operation, there's a very interesting review of the Bravo portable vertical antenna in March QST.
The antenna is designed and produced by N6BT, the guy who built and later sold Force 12. It looks like a ground plane, with a vertical radiator and radials, but actually it's a clever adaptation of an OCF doublet. Quoting from QST: "..the 'radials' aren't ground-plane radials in the usual sense. An evolution of previous N6BT vertical dipoles, it is an off-center-fed configuration with the lower half split into two radials...." The review, written by Ward N0AX, is very favorable, and concludes "I have used [long list follows] and this one is by far the best I've encountered..." If you're interested in portable operation, or you just want to see a clever antenna design, check it out. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ 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
