[TowerTalk] Neat way of making a rotable dipole

[Marinus Loewensteijn]

I think I just came across a neat way to make a rotatable dipole without using an insulator in the middle or splitting the dipole there. 

This means there is no weakening the dipole in the centre which has always been a hindrance in the construction. 

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pa0fri/Ant/LA6PB/splitdipoleeng.htm 

Just another way of using a choke, hi hi. 

Another thought has just occured to me - it can even be used to make a trap somewhere along the antenna by using a number of torois and just having a piece of tubing around it with one side attached to the element and the other side with a piece of teflon as dielectric to function as a capacitor. The neat idea about this is that you can tune the antenna by sliding the torids / capacitor along the element.

Enjoy!73,Marinus, ZL2ML   
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