At 01:05 PM 8/24/2006, Norm Duxbury, W1MO wrote:
>Yes, Craig, the T2FD (Terminated Folded Dipole). Gee, you must be old! OK,
>I guess we're both old.
>
>73, Norm, W1MO
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At 01:05 PM 8/24/2006, you wrote:
>Yes, Craig, the T2FD (Terminated Folded Dipole). Gee, you must be old! OK,
>I guess we're both old.
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The article I remember was in the mid 50s, published in CQ Magazine.
I think the author was G L Countryman (do not remember his call). It
was a tilted, terminated (T2) folded dipole that was terminated with
a 300 ohm "Globar" resistor and fed with 300 ohm line. In those days
link coupling and 300 or 600 ohm line worked just fine. Later on,
some tried 4 Globar resistors in series- parallel to be able to put
more power into the antenna. We didn't worry too much about reactance
of the resistive load. I probably did not understood what it was.
If you Google T2FD you will find more than you ever wanted to know.
INK N4OO
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