Hey Boys and Girls, This question may be simple, but for some reason it has me baffled. Is it possible to use one feedline for two seperate wire dipoles? I have the room for an 80 and 160 meter dipol
This has been covered in depth over the past few months re: 40m/80m. Same answer for the bands you propose. It will work. Don N8DE _______________________________________________ ____________________
Do it all the time, it's called a FAN Dipole. You do have to remember though, each wire interacts with the others, so tuning is a bit tricky, however, a good transmatch eliminates that issue. I curre
Yes, you're referring to a "fan dipole" where a single coaxial line feeds multiple wire radiators. The topic should be covered in any post WWII ARRL Handbook. Here's an on-line reference, although I
Each time you tune the lower band, the higher band will be affected (amount depends on your installation). I added 30m/17m dipoles to my Alpha Delta DX-CC fan dipole and it worked just fine, with two
The interaction is not as much as you might expect. I have four fan dipoles in the air now, two are 80/40 fans, two are 20/15/10 fans. In general, the SWR bandwidth of the lower frequency dipole will
Are you sure. I tend to take things literally and he asked about "two separate antennas". Even though multi band the fan dipole to me is one antenna. He may have meant something like the fan dipole,
Actually, on this same vein, I've always wondered what would happen if you were to feed two identical dipoles with the same feedline. Say North+West Legs on the braid, and South+East legs on the cent
For what it's worth, I lived in a townhouse for a long time, with no outside antennas (in theory). I had a whole set of dipoles - 40M (with W9INN coils at the tips to give some 80M coverage) 20M and
Well, I've done it in the past on 80M. I had the antenna (installed inverted-Vee style) with one pair of wires cut for 3795Khz and another pair, oriented at right angles to the first, cut for 3510Khz