[Antennas] RE: B&W Ant. Quest.

Tue Jun 29 00:21:24 EDT 2004

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 06:17:50PM -0500, Orrin Bentz wrote:
> Hello
>> There is an antenna made by Barker Williamson a model BWD-90.
> This is a folded dipole with spacers and a Balun at the feed point for
> coax.
>> Opposite the feed point there seems to be some sort of trap enclosed in
> PVC tubing. Does anyone have any idea what frequency this trap
> might resonate at? The antenna is 90' long and is touted as being
> 'broadbanded' Even a close guess would be adequate so I can start
> modeling this type of antenna.
>> This antenna is to be used for receive only. www.bwantennas.com
>
It's not a trap, it is a termination resistor (I don't know the value,
but a Google search should yield voluminous information). This is
essentially a T2FD (tilted, terminated folded dipole).
73, Bob N7XY