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Antenna conterpoise or ground plane. Confused about length requirements
I have an appliation where i need to mount a multiband (VHF/UHF/700/800/900 MHZ) mobile antenna (picture 2) on a tower. The spec sheet for the antenna says it used a 4 foot diameter ground plane for ...
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Why does 1/4 wavelength have a ground plane and 1/2 wavelength needs none?
Why does 1/4 wavelength have to have a ground plane and 1/2 doesn't?
I know that an antenna that has half a wavelength does not need the ground plane (example a dipole antenna) and when using a ...
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