[TowerTalk] Broadbanding a dipole

[David Jordan]

NO its is for bandwidth...

sometimes I stuff a screwdriver mobile antenna on each end and use it as 
a 160 - 40m remote tuned dipole ;-)

73,
dave
wa3gin

Jim Lux wrote:

>At 11:12 AM 1/30/2006, Tod wrote:
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>>>...I use 2" irrigation tubing for a dipole on 40 meters.  The
>>>dipole has a usable bandwidth of about .5Mhz
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>>I suspect the 2" tubing is to minimize droop on 40 meters rather than VSWR
>>across the band. Last I heard we only were allowed to use 300 kHz.
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>>Tod, K0TO
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