[Antennas] 80m dipole center connectors?
George, W5YR
[email protected]
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:02:47 -0600
Why not go a step further if you have the room and extend the 80 meter
dipole to about 176 feet? That will give you an extended Double Zepp
for 40 meters with a theoretical 3-dB broadside lobe gain. It can be
tuned to work well on 160 - 10 with gain over a dipole cut for each
band in the same location on all bands except 160.
I use two 20-meter EDZ antennas mounted at right angles with the same
ladderline lengths so that one tuner setting works for both. Then,
just a flip of the tuner selector switch gives me one antenna and
pattern or the other. Bob has heard those antennas many times in the
Fox Hunts on 20 and 40!
73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
K2 #489 IC-765 #2349 IC-756 PRO #2121 IC-756 PRO2 #3235
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Tellefsen" <[email protected]>
To: "Les Severson" <[email protected]>; "Paul B. Peters, VE7AVV"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: [Antennas] 80m dipole center connectors?
> Paul
> In addition, the use of tuned feeders would give you
> two half waves in phase on 40m for some gain, if
> this matters to you.
> 73, Bob N6WG