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To: usconservative

That baby’ll have to be about 12 miles long to load up resonantly, though.


149 posted on 10/22/2011 5:47:01 PM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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To: Erasmus
That baby’ll have to be about 12 miles long to load up resonantly, though.

Not true. 468/Freq will give you the electrical length for a half wave. Double it for a full wave. I'm on 7.178 most evenings, I have a 126 foot (physical) half-wave dipole, I can fold it and make it a full-wave.

179 posted on 10/22/2011 8:44:18 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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