[BC] Skirt feeds.....

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 02:56 pm, Poetter Bruehl wrote:
>  In one text what you describe is called an inverted unipole.

 And where some people come up with these confusing terms
 is beyond me !

 The history of the name is quite simple.

 A dipole, is an antenna with two poles, also called a doublet.
 A folded dipole, is that same dipole with a parallel conductor,
 which "shorts" the far ends together, almost as if the dipole
 were "folded" back on itself.

 A monopole, is half a dipole, usually vertical and worked
 against a counterpoise.
 Therefore, a folded monopole is our conventional skirt feed,
 or a bazooka, with either conductor grounded.

 Uni-pole inplies a single poled antenna, something which is
 theoretically impossible.
 Back when, Jack Mullaney borrowed the term for a skirt feed.

 The term "inverted unipole" says to me, a conventional
 monopole, skirted but with the skirt shorted at the base, 
 the base insulated from ground, and fed across the skirt and
 tower at the top.
 Again, the only case I know of where this was tried, was me,
 many moons ago. It worked, but was difficult to match.

-- 
Cowboy