Jim:
Bottom line -- all band dipoles and OCF antennas are a very bad idea
in today's world where RF trash is everywhere. I view them as an
unnatural act. Yes, you can load a random dipole fed with high Z line
and get it to accept power, but the pattern will vary widely with
frequency (lots of nulls), and because you can't choke the feedline,
it will pick up lots of noise. There ain't no free lunch. Resonant
antennas fed with coax rock. The others "roll."
73, Jim K9YC
How does the ladder line doublet antenna effect the patterns on
different bands? I suspect that the patterns can get somewhat chaotic on
the upper HF bands with say an 80 through 10 meter doublet?
It seems that the most effective multi-band solution is to go with a fan
dipole, which in my case, would be for 80, 40 and 30 meters.
Tony
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