Richard Harrison wrote:

On page 6-29 it says: " "Experience has indicated that a secrion of wire
approximately one half wavelength long, wound on an insulating form with
linear pitch (equal spacing between turns) will come close to yielding a
resonant quarter wavelength. Therefore, an antenna for use on 160 meters
would require approximately 230 feet of wire, spirally wound on the
support.

Art may have discovered the above alone but he was very unlikely to have
been the first discoverer.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI


Richard

I don't have any issues with spiral wound loaded antennas. I have
several hamsticks which fall in that category.

Perhaps you've missed the parts where he claims performance including
gain and especially directionality from a 160m antenna that is perhaps
the size of a shoebox. And has windings in one sense and then in the
other. That's the stuff he won't and can't prove works as claimed. And
I just remembered the part where he's going to put a DSS style dish
behind it to make it even more directive.

And then there's the imaginary physics that he claims makes all antennas
work.

Sorry, I stand on my statements.

tom
K0TAR