Re: LF: Top load coil at ground level?

["Peter Martinez" <peter.martinez@btinternet.com>]

> From G3PLX:
Effectively what Dick is suggesting is having the coil physically at the 
bottom where it can be housed and adjusted, but electrically at the top. 
This is done by extending two wires down the antenna such that the currents 
in these two wires are equal and opposite and they therefore make no 
contribution (or degradation) of the antenna performance.  If the antenna is 
electrically short anyway, it doesn't help to say this is a stub with a 
specific electrical length, it's just a coil connected into it's place with 
a pair of wires.
If the antenna was hollow, or like a lattice tower, the wire from the top 
hat could come down to the bottom inside the structure, so long as it didn't 
arc across!
73
Peter