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i see this month arrl magazine qst reviews a new hf comet verticle
that dosn't use radials

i am just wondering how does this work?

it specifies that its not a stelar performer has low swr but dosn't
explain the technology"" it uses to 'work' w/o radials


anybody know?


thanks

i reamain eager for an answer to my question

Just a guess, but I'll bet that thingey down at the bottom of the
antenna is a resistor. Although it says it doesn't need radials, they
would help, although they might mess up the broadbanded appeal of the
antenna.
Gary N4AST



There probably is a resistor shunted across the feedline. I would imagine
that it is emulating a half wave end fed antenna. That should not be too
difficult to manage.

For someone in an impossible situation for a real antenna, it would work
quite satisfactorily. After all, it is either this antenna, or one like it,
or no operation at all.