Pete,
It indeed does work. W2PV wrote about one that he
designed for his contest station that was an inverted
vee configured dipole that covered 75,80, and 160. It
was written up in QST sometime in the 70's (not sure
what month/year but could find out if there is any
interest.
73, Stew K3ND
--- brunet@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>
>
> Are their designs for 80m dipoles covering 3.5
> through 4.0 preferably without a
> trip to the antenna? Sounds like the search for the
> holy grail. Some ideas:
>
> 1) a pair of dipoles with one feedpoint, one cut for
> each end of the band
>
> I suspect this doesn't work since I have never seen
> it written about or used.
>
> 2) a dipole whose length can be changed using a
> small motor drive on each end
>
> Various ideas come to mind but I don't know how
> successful any of them would be
> in reality. Has anyone done work in this area?
>
> Thanks, Pete ws4g
>
>
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