The perfect example of your point Jim was the infamous Maxcom antenna that
claimed 1:2 to 1 from 2-30 Mhz! Actually, when you hooked your rig up that
was very close. Further examination of the potted matching block, I think
by the ARRL labs, by an X-ray device, reveals a series of toaster elements
inside. They refused to run any more ads in QST but 73 continued for a
while. Essentially it was a dummy load that you hung in the air between two
wires and fed with coax. The U.S. government had something close to this
called the T4FD that they put on embassies and military installations all
over the world. It worked a bit better as the non-inductive load was
placed in the top center of a wide-spaced folded dipole, This was also
supposed to cover 2-30 Mhz with a reasonable SWR curve.
Herb, KV4FZ
On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:15 AM Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/2019 4:36 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
> > There is no reason to ignore SWR.
>
> I wasn't suggesting that, John. Rather, I was observing that gain and
> pattern are what make an antenna a good performer. Far too many hams
> think that if the SWR is low, it's a good antenna. :) Sure we want SWR
> to be low so we can put power into it.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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