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> I am interested in building a half size flag antenna (15 ft by 7 ft) to
> work on 80, 40 30, & 20meters. The antenna will be rotatable and will be
> used to augment my vertical xmit antenna. My question is what is the value
> of the termination resistor to optimize this antenna. I will use 75 ohn
> feed line coax.
In principle, it should be the same value as for the larger one (940 ohms I
think)
In practice you probably want to experiment. The optimum termination value
to get best F/B on my flag is higher, up around 1300 ohms.
It may have something to do with nearby objects or it might be that I don't
actually have the dimensions scaled right. I'm usually interested in
figuring out the departure from theory but I haven't figured this one out
yet. I haven't tried too hard because it works well with the termination
I'm using:
http://n3ox.net/projects/flag/flagpattern_lg.JPG
73
Dan
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