[TowerTalk] Ends of Dipoles - Mythbusting

[Lee Buller]

  Mythbusting......
   
  Statement - you need to solder the ends of the dipoles because the loop in the end insulator and the wrapping of the wire back onto the antenna is a inductor and a capacitor...thus changing the resolate frequency of the dipole.
   
  True or False
   
  Myth or not
   
  Lee - K0WA
   


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