In article , john wier wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 20:48:53 -0400, Luke Scharf
wrote:

RST Engineering wrote:
Will somebody please take this bubba out and shoot him. Please?

Someone should at least explain the signigicance of 1/4 wavelength WRT
antennas to him first.

-Luke

1/4 wave antenna's are hogwash. They barely work. What you need is
"complete wave" or "full wave" With my trailing antenna, I'll have the
equivalent of many full wave antenna's end to end.

quarter-wave (actually any _odd_ multiple of a 1/4 wavelength) antenna's
must be perpendicular to, and with one adjacent to, a decent 'ground plane'.
When *your* plane is not on the ground, it's not surprising that your antenna
doesn't work worth a d*mn.

'Dipole' transmitting antennas need an odd multiple of 1/2 wavelength on
_each_side_ of the feed-point, for optimum performance. Be sure to let
us know how you fare at getting the other half out in *front* of the plane.