[TowerTalk] 40/80m dipole

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 08:51:23 -0400, Bill Coleman wrote:

>I built just such a dipole last fall. I wrote it up on my blog here:
>http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com/2010/02/trap-dipole-for-8040m.html

>Mine came up to be 98 feet long. You can let the last few feet of each 
>element droop down to fit in your space. 

I had a commercial version of this in Chicago, made by a ham in PA who calls 
his business HyPower Antennas. He advertises in QST and has a website. That 
antenna was pretty much the same as yours, and it worked quite well on both 
bands. I have a the 160/80 version of it up in the air here in CA, to which I 
added a 40M fan element (I have about 210 ft between trees), and it also 
works quite well. I had another copy of the 160/80/40 antenna at a mountain-
top site about five years ago, and it also worked great. 

73, Jim K9YC