"Spike" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:50:30 -0800, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:14:58 +0000, Spike
wrote:
I also believe that Walt's information has been
published in roughly similar form many years ago, although I don't
have the reference to hand.

Hi OM,

There's a good chance it was from one of Walt's own many publications,
or it was, as he said, Dr. George H. Brown (the nominal, ultimate
source) with whom he worked.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

The reference I had in mind was an article or item in the RSGB's
flagship journal (Radio Communication at that time?) which had a
picture of the two-radial vertical and a description of what happened
when the radials were progressively angled below the horizontal. This
must have been 15+ years ago. I can't recall now if it referenced any
of the said gentlemen's works, but the parallels are there.

I'm sure it is much older than 15 years- it was around when I did my RAE
(more than 15 years !). I'm pretty sure it is the the old Admiralty
Handbook, but I can't lay my hands on mine. You see a similar effect when
making a dipole into and inverted V.

It is certainly taught on at least one Advance RCE course ;-)

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Brian Reay
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