[TowerTalk] Two Wires Antennas, One feed line

[Pete Smith]

For what it's worth, I lived in a townhouse for a long time, with no 
outside antennas (in theory).  I had a whole set of dipoles  - 40M (with 
W9INN coils at the tips to give some 80M coverage) 20M and 10M.  The 40M 
dipole worked fine on 15.  Granted, I was using a tube transceiver at 
the time, with a tunable pi-network output, but I never had any trouble 
matching on all bands.  Finally threw up a full-wave loop for 80M to 
finish 5BDXCC, and wound up using it on all bands (with open wire feed 
to one corner, plus a short length of coax and the tuner in a TS-930).  
Then I put up a Cushcraft R5, painted matt black, and immediately got 
busted by the CCR cops.  Oh well.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 6/15/2010 12:36 PM, Dave Tipton, W5DMT wrote:
> Do it all the time, it's called a FAN Dipole.
>
> You do have to remember though, each wire interacts with the others, so
> tuning is a bit tricky, however, a good transmatch eliminates that issue.
>
> I currently run a commercially made dipole from Alpha Delta that has wires
> for 80/40, 20, 15 and 10M.  4 wires (with one set of resonator coils) and 5
> bands.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Bagley
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:51 AM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Two Wires Antennas, One feed line
>
> Hey Boys and Girls,
>
> This question may be simple, but for some reason it has me baffled.  Is it
> possible to use one feedline for two seperate wire dipoles?  I have the room
> for an 80 and 160 meter dipole.  Thoughts?
>
> Steve, N2MAI
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