"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
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John wrote:
. . .
I thought it was supposed to be backwards from the usual unfolded
monopole
such that it would go up in resistance and become inductive.?.

Why would it do that?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL


Well, you said earlier that the folded monopole could be modeled as an
unfolded monopole with a shorted transmission line in parallel. I thought I
understood. When I modeled the unfolded monopole, I saw it do as usual when
the element was varied in length. But when I included the shorted section of
transmission line and varied it directly with the element, I thought I saw
the terminal reactance go inductive as the length was decreased below
1/4-wave resonance and I thought the terminal resistance went up. So, I was
expecting the same from EZNEC by modeling the folded version.

I guess I'm really lost here.

John