[Elecraft] Re: LONG: Background info on Re: WTB: CPK for Butternut HF-6V

2008-08-20 Thread Don Wilhelm
Niel, Fine on your constraints. Remember that a vertical with raised radials is just a dipole 'on its side' with one leg (a single radial) bent at 90 degrees to the radiating element. So how does only the vertical part radiate you may ask. That happens because you add another radial physica

[Elecraft] Re: LONG: Background info on Re: WTB: CPK for Butternut HF-6V

2008-08-20 Thread Jerry Flanders
At 11:59 AM 8/20/2008, Niel Skousen wrote: ... I have a 24' tree, with some 3-4' bushes at the base, in a desert/rock landscaped front yard. The back has no 'cover' yet, and antenna's are more visible in spite of a fence. The plan is to install the antenna obscured by the tree, in the front yar