Double check the antenna details. I suspect you are describing the
matching circuit for a 1/2 or 5/8 antenna, not a 1/4 wave antenna.

DD

larry d clark wrote:
in a never ending quest to acquire antenna knowledge
i've been doing some reading of a paper back book
by a well know antenna guru who's now a sk.
he claims that if a vertical antenna is fed at it's base
with a parallel resonant l/c circuit and tapped on the
inductor to to get an appropriate swr match, it's
rf ground can be no more than a 3'x3' screen combined
with a rod in the ground.

in my mind, this seems to be something for nothing. if true
why do i read about the importance of having a number
of radials?

questions, comments, pronouncements from the gurus on high
most welcome. brickbats & complaints, etc 2&1 /dev/null

larry
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