> Where Gotham stumbled badly was in promoting the fiction that radials > weren't required on an (electrically) short vertical. To quote from > Gotham's > January 1959 QST ad: "Are radials needed with a Gotham vertical? Answer: > No, > except in a few rare occasions. 99% of the installations are done without > radials."
Now throw the "then relatively new" monimatch SWR meter into the mix. Add radials to the shortened base-fed vertical and watch line SWR increase. To many novices, the thinking is that if the SWR is better without radials, then why use them? Paul, W9AC ______________________________________________________________ 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
