Hi Goose,
Think this holds true if you lay down a hundred or more, but is not the case if
you install fewer based on more recent research...
30000 feet will be loads of fun to lay hihi
73 & GL in ARRL160!
Julius
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Elecraft K3/100 #1875
> Just make them as long as you can (not to
> exceed 0.4 wavelengths)
> and you are done. The 0.4 wavelength number comes
> from research done many
> years ago and published in the Proceedings of the
> IRE. It shows that the
> amount of radiation efficiency that you gain by going
> longer than 0.4
> wavelengths is not worth the trouble.
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