[TowerTalk] Re: B & W antenna

[Don Havlicek]

That is correct ASSUMING that both sides of the folded dipole are the 
same size wire.
It is possible, by selecting the wire sizes carefully and appropriately, 
to make the input impedance of a folded dipole just about anything you 
wish it to be from about 50 ohms up to over 1000 ohms.
See:  ARRL Antenna Book 17th Edition, page 2-33, figure 28.
Don
N8DE

Mel Martin wrote:
> Right... the folded dipole is 4x the open dipole impedance... not 2x
> 
> It's my memory that failed me ;-)
> 
> 
>>Maybe my memory fails me but isn't a folded dipole more like 300 ohms?
>>
>>
> 
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