Was looking over different sites on how to build spiders and came across:
which, with adding in the velocity factor (which I keep forgetting) made me realize more why the vertical isn’t always best using the full 68.7mm length… But… why the additional 12% length for the legs?
I also saw the comments in My Spider gets complicated about having a horizontal component to the ground plane closer to the 1/4 wavelength (I’m currently soldering the legs to a 1" copper washer with a 5/16" hole to attach a F barrel connector). So would that also suggest that the horizontal component of the ground plane need to be 12% longer than the 1/4 wavelength as well, or should it be more in line with the length of the vertical element?
