[Antennas] WINDOM

Sun Oct 1 13:29:00 EDT 2006

You mean you have four wires - only one directly fed, and the other resonant 
at 75, 40 and 20? How interesting.
Just curious, what did you use for the "cage" spreaders - assuming they're 
all equal distant from the 80 meter antenna?
73
David N1EA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "frank" <fkamp at comcast.net>
To: "Danny Richardson" <k6mhe at k6mhe.com>
Cc: <antennas at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Antennas] WINDOM
I have couple of pennies too.
I have used the windom, single wire, and balun with coax but only to
cover 80 thru 10. My windoms worked as well as any normal dipole. The
only advantage I saw was that the windom was more of an all band antenna
without need for a tuner. Even then some bands had swrs above 2.0.
I have settled on dipoles for the lower frequecy bands. I have one 75
meter dipole that is driven and three passive half wave lengths of wire
hanging in close proximity. The mess covers 75, 80, 40, and 30 with
very low swr and no tuner. All four lengths of wire are spaced about 6
inches appart and only the 75 meter element is driven. All mounted in
the inverted vee configuration. Seems to work as well as seperate dipoles.
Regards,
Frank Kamp
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