[TowerTalk] Multiband dipoles

[Brad Bradfield]

Breed's design (now patented) had only one element driven as a dipole. 
The elements for the other frequencies (three total in his WARC example
that you mentioned) were "closely coupled resonators", and not driven
directly.  A swept frequency return loss plot showed very unique spikes
at each designed frequency of interest.

73,

Brad, W5CGH

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--- n4kg@juno.com wrote:

> K9AY published an article on a 3 band
> wire dipole for the WARC bands in RF Design several years ago
> (Nov 1994).  He suggests conductor spacing (d) according to
> this formula:   
> 
> Log (d) = 0.54 x Log (D/4)   where D = conductor diameter  
> 
> (assuming equal D for each element).
> 


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