Pete Smith wrote:
>A local OF (no names please) reports good success in broadbanding his
>80-meter dipole. Sez he feeds it with 50-ohm line, cut by formula for
>3650, and inserts a quarter-wave of 75-ohm coax a quarter wave down from
>the feedpoint. He says it produces a double-humped SWR curve that never
>approaches 1:1 but stays between 2:2 from 3500-3800.
(I think you mean "below 2:1.")
>Anyone ever tried this?
Yes, as a matter of fact, Frank Witt, AI1H, wrote a nice QST article on
this about five years ago. I think it was published in the summer or
fall of 1993, just after I left HQ. It was one of the last articles I
edited for QST.
Dave, W6NL, has also tried this, and it works for him.
--73, Rus, NJ2L
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