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Re: [TowerTalk] Broadbanding 80 meter dipole

To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Broadbanding 80 meter dipole
From: Kim Elmore <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:28:21 -0500
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I misunderstood and assumed half-slopers. Autotuners wouldn't help much!

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the 
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

> On Aug 18, 2017, at 11:49, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Unless the tower is resonant on 80m slopers should work fine.  I think
> only half slopers are "weird creatures" because the tower and attached
> beams radiate.
> 
> John KK9A
> 
> 
> To:     "[email protected]"
> Subject:Re: [TowerTalk] Broadbanding 80 meter dipole
> From:    Kimberly Elmore
> Date:    Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:16:33 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> Rod's idea is by far the best. Slopers are weird creatures. While you can
> broadband antennas by making the elements with a large diameter (as in a
> cage)
> the mechanical complexity isn't worth it. If they absolutely positively
> must be
> resonant, well...
> 
> Kim N5OP
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