At various times and on various websites, a well-known ham has claimed that the low-angle, v-pol radiation from a vertical monopole is not...
I am about to install a 6BTV at the bottom of my back yard in an area with trees (not deeply forested), and I thought to sense check my approach...
Ideally, we would use an enormous solid silver plate (equivalent in a sense to an infinite number of radials), but back in the real world what is...
Imagine we for some reason wanted to erect a ground mounted vertical in a desert, where we know that it never rains and we have pure sand many,...
For consideration and possible discussion... A common belief among ham radio operators seen on various websites is that vertical monopoles...
Contrary to the conclusions based on the far-field gains calculated by M-o-M software such as NEC 2.x and NEC4.x, vertical monopoles can have...
Ham website posts sometimes refer to using a set of four wire grids rather than the conventional set of separate wires when installing the buried...
A popular concept in the ham community is that v-pol radiators installed on and near the surface of the Earth do not perform very well unless the...
I have been using the Wolf River Coil antenna system for a few years now and wanted to share my tips, tricks and modifications. You can apply a...
Watch how quick and easy it is to setup the CrankIR from SteppIR. This way of setting up the CrankIR will make it pretty much hassle free even...
Below is a clip from RADIO ENGINEERS' HANDBOOK, 3rd Edition, by F. E. Terman (1943). It shows the relationship/dependence of skywave radiation...
The following was posted in another thread on QRZ with a subject title that might make it difficult to retrieve. /RF ________________ WA7ARK:...
Many threads posted on various websites over the years have included statements/beliefs on this subject, but support there for the accuracy of...
I need some help deciding on an antenna. I have had several thoughts from an off center dipole to a single 20 meter dipole but hanging it properly...
Amateur radio operators tend to use the NEC-calculated far-field analysis almost exclusively. However the far field as defined in antenna...
A rather popular concept in amateur radio is that the physical lengths* of buried radials used with a vertical monopole need not be any longer...
Hi everyone. I just purchase a hustler 5btv. I want to take it up to field day but I want to put some radials on it first. I was hoping someone...
A movie about the reconstruction of my antenna installation for short waves. [MEDIA]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] After our unsuccessful but very funny experiment using a drone-based vertical antenna, my friends and I did some research and...
For discussion: Posts have been made on various boards to the effect that the elevation pattern of a vertical monopole requires reflections from...
