[TowerTalk] dipole bandwidth

[Pete Smith]

A local OF (no names please) reports good success in broadbanding his
80-meter dipole.  Sez he feeds it with 50-ohm line, cut by formula for
3650, and inserts a quarter-wave of 75-ohm coax a quarter wave down from
the feedpoint.  He says it produces a double-humped SWR curve that never
approaches 1:1 but stays between 2:2 from 3500-3800.

Anyone ever tried this?  




73,  Pete Smith N4ZR
In wild, wonderful, fairly rare WEST Virginia

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