Just to make certain that we're on the same page, I'm writing of the
Radio Handbook, the one Bill Orr edited. It was a Radio Magazine
handbook, perhaps later CQ Magazine and finally published by Sams. That
was the one filled with linear amplifier articles for both HF and VHF.
I think more of Bill's articles appeared in CQ than QST.
73,
Dave K8MN
On 8/3/2012 13 49, Tom W8JI wrote:
>> The claim was made in the last several editions of the Radio Handbook in
>> describing a TV twinlead folded Marconi for 160m.
>
> I believe the idea was not in QST, because at that time QST had good
> technical editing. There were very few gross technical gaffs in QST back
> then.
>
> As I recall, the idea originally appeared in either 73 or CQ Magazine.
>
> This illustrates the danger of non-peer reviewed technical articles. I
> personally know of at least a half-dozen AM BC stations that invested money
> in converting to folded unipoles, and a company in Texas started producing
> antennas based on that silly idea.
>
>
> http://www.w8ji.com/radiation_resistance.htm
>
> 73 Tom
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