>Re: K6SE posting on this reflector about half-slopers.
>Many think the half-sloper is the radiator, when indeed it is not. The
>main radiating element is the tower from which the sloper is hung, as any
>modeling software will show. Apparently the half-sloper acts something
>like an elevated radial, causing the tower to radiate. The pattern is
>nearly omnidirectional (with low-angle radiation), but favors the
>direction of the sloper by 4 or 5 dB. Perhaps three or four
>half-slopers, equally spaced around the tower and fed in phase (one
>feedline), would circularize the pattern (I'll have to try that one in
>my modeling software).
Well,I had previously my Tower without radials and Sloper favored South
/sloping wire in this direction/ by at least 1S.
Two years ago I digged about 20 radials and since then it seems to radiate
equelly in all directions.
73 Rys SP5EWY
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