[TowerTalk] Anyone everyone ever experiment making a DUAL driven Quad ? Cebit talkes about a Fat wire design.

Hardy Landskov n7rt at cox.net
Wed Jan 2 19:22:26 EST 2008


If memory serves me right, W4RNL did some modeling on this and the results
were not real good. Please check his website.
73, HNY    N7RT


At 11:32 PM 1/1/2008 -0500, Joe Giacobello wrote:
>If my memory serves, it was W6PU.  I worked him on 20M about two years 
>ago and we talked about his design.  I think, but am not certain, that 
>he is still using the dual driven quad.  I believe the article where he 
>discussed it in detail was from an issue of CQ in the 80s.  He also said 
>that he got a lot of static regarding the underlying theoretical basis 
>for the design, but that it worked for him and he swore by the 
>performance.  Frankly, the details are vague in my mind but I think the 
>design was based on the ZL Special.
>
>73, Joe
>K2XX
>
>Scott W3TX wrote:
>> Hi Jack,
>>
>> I've seen a design like this before.  It was developed by a W6.  If my
>> mind serves me correctly I believe that K3ZO built one and perfected it.
>> The original article by the W6 had a few errors that ZO corrected
>>
>> 73, Scott W3TX
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