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G6Tanuki · 14th Sep 2022, 5:11 pm

I have vague memories of a TV antenna promoted by EMI in the early days of broadcast TV - it was a long-wire (meaning several wavelengths long) horizontal wire which you were meant to arrange so that it was radially oriented as a ' spoke on a wheel ' with the transmitter at the centre of the hub.

I guess it was a sort of Beveridge antenna..

But was it terminated by a proper resistance and quarter wave end?! And how effective would such an antenna be?!

14th Sep 2022, 5:11 pm	#1
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 14,005	EMI TV end fed wire antenna. I have vague memories of a TV antenna promoted by EMI in the early days of broadcast TV - it was a long-wire (meaning several wavelengths long) horizontal wire which you were meant to arrange so that it was radially oriented as a ' spoke on a wheel ' with the transmitter at the centre of the hub. I guess it was a sort of Beveridge antenna.. But was it terminated by a proper resistance and quarter wave end?! And how effective would such an antenna be?! __________________ I'm the Operator of my Pocket Calculator. -Kraftwerk.