[HQRP] New Antenna Principle or a lot of hot air?

[Glen Reid]

Folks,

I have seen a couple of article about this "new concept" in antenna design.

 From what I can tell they are using a helix element  (distributed 
capacitance) with a loading inductor ( lumped inductance) in it to 
accomplish very short antennas relative to quarter wave at the same 
frequency.  According to the article, a 40 meter quarter wave antenna could 
be about  10 feet   "with no compromise in performance".

The first article indicated that heating of the antenna was a problem in 
early experiments, (even to the extent of destroying early 
prototypes).  That sound like a very inefficient radiator.

Any of you antenna gurus heard anything about this:

http://tinyurl.com/yu99q


gr

GLEN REID
k5fx@arrl.net
Austin, Texas

"The only difference between genius and stupidity is that...genius has its 
limits"