I said recently that the wire connecting these type of mini antennas is in
fact the antenna. It was the same with the Partridge Joy stick of
yesteryears, the long connecting wire to the small loading coil was doing
most of the work.
There is no substitute for a real resonant antenna at the working frequency.
G3KEV
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 1:36 PM
Subject: LF: Re: Noise cancelling by using optic transmission of RX signals
> >I think the role of the ground with active whips is often neglected - the
output of the whip preamp
> >is the voltage differential between the whip element and the circuit
ground, so the ground
> >connection is just as much part of the antenna as the whip element itself
is.
>
> That's an important point that is often overlooked or ignored. A mini whip
mounted up at 5 meters is
> a 5 meter antenna. You can easily prove this by mounting it at ground zero
on top of a ground
> screen. Been there, done that.
>
> Jay W1VD WD2XNS WE2XGR
>
>
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