[TenTec] 80m antenna suggestion

[Ken Brown]

Hi Pete,

A fattened (cage) dipole is broader band than a skinny dipole, and I did 
not think they were lossy.

Ken

ac5e at comcast.net wrote:

>Chuckle - even back in prehistoric times we knew the only way to broadband a dipole is to make it lossy. However the reduction in field strength, while greater than a typical trap or loading inductor, is not that great. My FS tests show it to be a dB more or less. 
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