On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:46:56 -0600, Mike Coslo
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:35:14 -0800, Richard Clark wrote:

Better to back off from my 5 and instead consider:
http://home.comcast.net/~kb7qhc/ante.../Cage/cage.htm which
comes to the same thing, but not at the expense of forever re-tuning
each wire by band.

Hi Richard,

Was this antenna ever built?

Hi Mike,

I built a vertical dipole version of it, but it didn't have enough
wires in the skeleton (6 not 16) to justify keeping it up.

A similar study of the discone at:
http://www.qsl.net/kb7qhc/antenna/Discone/discone.htm
reveals that geometery as well as fullness of the skeleton makes
considerable differences in performance.

I did a field day version of this with 8 wires, and it too showed a
lot of bare patches.

As I said, a lot of wire....

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC