Talk:Folded unipole antenna

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I'm still working on getting a picture of the antenna. The two known US vendors seem to think a picture would be giving away some proprietary information! I'm probably going to have to take a snapshot myself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LymanSchool (talk • contribs) 20:49, 8 September 2006 UTC (UTC)

I got the pictures. LymanSchool 20:13, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Needs a simple picture/circuit diagram
There are plenty of pictures of installed antennas, but it would be good to have a picture of the essential elements drawn as lines like a circuit diagram. Drkirkby (talk) 13:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Bad merger idea
User:Chetvorno suggested the bad idea' of merging this unipole article with the cage antenna article, and apparently placed this notice on the head of the unipole article:



User:Chetvorno has falsely conflated unipoles with look-alike monopole cage antennas. I've posted several refutations of his mistaken notions on the cage antenna talk page.

The most succinct point is that a cage element never has current running in its center (even if there is a wire there, rather than a rope). A unipole always has net current running through the center mast in the opposite direction of the net current in the skirt wires. It is always a design issue for the unipole antenna to (maximally) $un$balance those currents, to get either the skirt or the mast to radiate; there is never any such issue in a cage element. — Astro-Tom-ical (talk) 05:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC) (K7TLI)