As a system it's the same electrically, but physically and individually
I think it's a bit different. A bent leg of a dipole has not very much
distributed capacitance and a considerable distributed inductance, all
of which it gets by being a wire. A mesh counterpoise isn't bent at all
... it can be thought of as a greatly expanded wire (think
mushroom-shaped) with not much inductance and a lot of capacitance.
Anyway, as I've tried to say here several times ... all of these
configurations (radials, mesh, EVEN THE EARTH if you don't bypass it)
are basically counterpoises. They just have different physical and
parameter tradeoffs.
Dave AB7E
On 1/17/2026 2:53 PM, Steve Dyer W1SRD via TowerTalk wrote:
Isn't a quarter wave vertical with a counterpoise just a bent dipole?
Remember the CrankIR?
73,
Steve
W1SRD
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