Mike, Over the years I have come to know Don as always succinct and to the point. AND, he does know his stuff nearly 100% or he will not comment. He will not waste his time responding to this accolade. We go back to the K2 field test and he was much a pleasure to work with then as now. Oh, I and I think his knowledge and writing skill has improved with age!
73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Morrow Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Small QRP antenna Don wrote: > A 1/2 wave radiator fed at the end theoretically does not need any > counterpoise, but in practice it does - but only needs to be about > 0.05 wavelength long. > > Refer to some antenna books (the ARRL has a good one) or the ARRL > Handbook for good information about basic antennas. The concise clarity of Don's input to this thread is refreshing. Such seem to occur rarely in ham discussions about antennas. With respect to classical end-fed half-wave antennas, I think of the end-fed Zepp[elin] and the common VHF J-poles. Mike / KK5F ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
