[Antennas] top hat for vertical

Fri Dec 31 12:42:05 EST 2004

At 05:45 AM 12/31/2004 -0500, David J Windisch wrote:
>Hi, all concerned:
>>FWIW, I have a Hustler 6BTV over 8000 feet of radialpatch, and had a wire 
>catenary hanging near the top of the vertical. By adjusting the proximity 
>of the catenary to the vertical with a tag-line, I could "tune" the vertical 
>at least from 4 to 3.5 MHz, if it was "set" to 4 MHz with the catenary 
>farthest away. Further experimentation is indicated: I'd like to see if a 
>33-ft vertical can be made to "resonate" from 1.8 thru 7.3 MHz (with the 
>tag-line on a motorized winch controlled from the shack ;o))

Dear Dave,
Of course it will work. 
However, I don't know that I would refer to it as "tuning a vertical" - isn't it more of an adjustable, inverted "L"?
73 de W9DMK, Bob in Dahlgren, VA
w9dmk at crosslink.net
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