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Old July 11th 06, 03:10 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Tom Donaly Tom Donaly is offline
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Default Quarterwave vertical with radials

Reg Edwards wrote:
Reg Edwards wrote:

A pair of radials behave as a continuous dipole fed at its center


via

a single wire. And it radiates.


If the radials are horizontal and radiating, why is
there virtually no horizontally polarized radiation?
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73, Cecil


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Cec,
Your use of the word "virtually" indicates a weakness in your ideas on
the subject.

The radiation, as small as it may be, is vertically polarised.
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Reg.



Put a number on it, Reg. Besides, you said, yourself, that Cecil
is always right.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH