On Jul 1, 10:27*am, RHF wrote:
On Jun 30, 6:59*pm, "
wrote:

Was at a field day thing this past weekend. *I wasn't there when they
set everything up.

- *There were 3 antennas in use.

Basic Antenna Modelshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_%28radio%29#Basic_antenna_models

The Basic Antennahttp://www.electronics-tutorials.com/antennas/antenna-basics.htm

Overview of Antennashttp://www.ess.washington.edu/Space/ESS205/antennalecture.pdf

-*One very clearly was a Yagi.http://www.jpo.go.jp/seido_e/rekishi...i/Yagi_Antenna

- One of the others very clearly was a "vertical"

The Vertical over a Ground -aka- Marconi Antennahttp://www.midnightscience..com/_xtal/00000210.htmhttp://www.electronics-tutorials.com/antennas/antenna-basics.htmhttp://www.hnsa.org/doc/radio/chap20.htm

- and the other one was like a wire running the
- length of the parking lot and was up about as
- high as the building - then it had a middle wire
- running in to the shack with the radio. *I was
- told that was a horizontal antenna.

Dipole Antenna, developed by Heinrich Rudolph Hertzhttp://www.hfradio.ca/images/AntennaRadiate.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_Antennahttp://en..wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz_antennahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz_antenna#Electromagnetic_research

Half-Wave Dipole Antennahttp://www.electronics-tutorials.com/antennas/antenna-basics.htmhttp://www.electronics-radio.com/articles/radio/antennas/dipole/half-...

-*Isn't there more specific names for vertical and
- horizontal antennas than just vertical and horizontal??
-
- Thanks.

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Some Antenna Basics from Marconi to Hertz to Yagi . . .

shortwave radio listening (swl) where the word 'antenna'
means more than 'pole' in italian - iane ~ RHF {pomkia}
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Thanks. Looking all these sites up over the weekend. Great list.!!