[TenTec] [Ten Tec] Bazooka antenna.. More than you wanted to know!

[Stuart Rohre]

Any half wave antenna is going to be low impedance at its center on the 
design band, and high impedance on other bands, except perhaps the third 
harmonic, etc.

The pickup of line noise by a horizontal dipole has more to do with 
imbalance and coupling of signal into the vertical coax or feeder from 
vetically polarized urban noise sources in the electrical infrastructure.

The bazooka claimed wider bandwidth by its materials, but analysis 
showed it was no better than a similar diameter wire.

-Stuart Rohre
K5KVH