[TowerTalk] Tri-bander question

[Pete Smith]

At 11:16 PM 8/19/01 -0400, Guy Olinger, K2AV wrote:
>
>No, it won't.  Model it and you will see why.  The twenty meter elements
>are coupled when operating the ten meter beam.  You get very interesting
>10 meter current distributions and related detunings on the twenty meter
>elements.
>
>F12 puts the 10 meter section in front the twenty in the C3
>

Not really, at least in the C-3S.  It uses a 10-meter reflector in front of
those for 15 and 20.  I'm not sure how separately-fed driven elements will
work in close proximity, but I believe that the C-3 had that option at one
point.

73, Pete N4ZR






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