Hi Ron Well, as you imply, it's no surprise. Size does matter, and as has often been said, you cannot defeat the laws of physics! Which, as a teacher of the subject gives me some pleasure!
73 Stephen G4SJP On 25/02/2009 22:24, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]> wrote: > > You've shown again that when it comes to an antenna, size does matter. > Especially when the physical length is less than 1/2 wavelength, every > little bit of additional length helps a lot! > > It's pretty easy to achieve resonance with a short antenna using loading > coils but until we have room-temperature superconductors cheap enough to use > for a Ham antenna, short, loaded antennas will always be very inefficient. > That doesn't' mean they won't "get out" or even work DX under the right > conditions, but they'll still be a distant second to anything larger. > > Ron AC7AC > ______________________________________________________________ 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
