CM VHF Ground Plane, converted with 4nec2 on 29-mrt-06 14:37 CM VHFGP CM This is a pretty ordinary VHF ground plane. For an CM interesting exercise, add a wire extending downward from CM the junction of the radials to simulate the outside of a CM coax feedline. With the wire a half wavelength long, you'll CM notice significant pattern distortion caused by current CM induced on the new wire. Various lengths, open or connected CM to ground, will cause different results. You can simulate CM addition of "current" (or "choke") baluns by adding loads CM of about 500-1000 ohms to the new wire. CE SY freq=146 ' Design frequency. sy len=0.233 '0.24 sy ang=48.6 '45 SY dl=0.25*sin(ang), dz=0.25*cos(ang) GW 1 6 0 0 5 0 dl 5-dz 5e-4 GW 2 6 0 0 5 dl 0 5-dz 5e-4 GW 3 6 0 0 5 0 -dl 5-dz 5e-4 GW 4 6 0 0 5 -dl 0 5-dz 5e-4 GW 5 5 0 0 5 0 0 5+len 5e-4 'GW 6 50 0 0 0 0 0 5 5e-4 'Coax GS 0 0 299.8/freq ' All in WL. GE 1 EX 6 5 1 0 1 0 'GN -1 GN 3 0 0 0 13 .005 FR 0 1 0 0 146 0 EN