"tom" wrote in message
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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

oh yeah, i forgot the laser beam pattern... was it also circularly
polarized, or was that some later rant?