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</head><body><p>Sure David, that's been a standard design for LF and MF antennas for over a century. It is a vertical radiator with a capacitive top load to allow it to be shorter, but it still depends on significant height to be efficient, and is still a very big unwieldy structure compared to a half-wave VHF dipole stuck up on a pole! </p><p>As you say, the T ideally needs wetlands and in any event a good earth system below. As I recall, when Capital Radio started up in London they strung one between the chimneys of Lotts Road power station, and had the advantage of being on the bank of the Thames for their earth. Most town centre community stations won't have such a situation to hand! <br></p><p>I think the same sort of antenna design would have been on the Titanic - now that did have a good earth plane below it!</p><p>Alex<br></p><blockquote type="cite"><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --><!-- <![endif] --><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --><!-- <![endif] -->On 15 December 2015 at 14:55 Info <info@transmittersrus.com> wrote:<br><br><div class="ox-a98c59f3ca-WordSection1"><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">Ian, Alex,</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">Look into the T-antenna.</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">They are relatively low profile, do not requires huge swathes of the greenbelt and are economically priced if you go DIY.</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">Peter ‘Chicago’ Murtha installed one just outside Walthamstow for the N. London bible basher. One can see it a couple of minutes up the road from the dog stadium.</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">SMC among others supply the hardware.</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">Pitch it up over some wetlands with a good ground system, buried or elevated and I reiterate, you do not require anything like 800W of RF to meet that EMRP quota.</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">BTW, make sure you have designed an efficient antenna tuning unit which can maximize the bandwidth so you don’t sound like you have a pillow over the mic.</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;"> </p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal" style="background: white;">David</p><p class="ox-a98c59f3ca-MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></body></html>