Re(2): [Antennas] Simple dipole

Sun Apr 2 15:16:34 EDT 2006

>> be ok to use both conductors as one leg of a dipole or would I be 
>> better off to split it and use a single conductor for each side..It 
>> is solid copper wire spaced about the same as old flat tv wire but 

OK, I don't know where some fellows get the opposite idea, BUT increasing
the diameter of an antenna wire or element actually shortens its
electrical length, not lengthen it.
Too, in this case the larger diameter would also slightly broaden the
bandwidth, which is typically a good thing.
Yes, other things also happen, but these are the two which have the most
effect of all in increasing the diameter of an antenna wire/element.
David B.
W7DBH
Oregon