[TowerTalk] Broadbanding 80 meter dipole

[Dan Maguire]

Grant KZ1W wrote:
>>> The ARRL Antenna Handbook has a number ways to broadband a dipole, several probably difficult as noted.  One not in the current handbook is the Witt/Leeson tuned coaxial resonator feed method, see ...

And Jim K9YC followed up with:
>>> I included the technique in a talk I did some years ago on using SimSmith to design antenna matching networks. 

This broadbanding technique came up a few years ago here on TowerTalk and was used as the basis for an AutoEZ modeling study.  See the fourth bullet here

http://ac6la.com/aecollection5.html

and be sure to note the caveat raised by Steve Hunt, G3TXQ, at the end showing why this technique won't work in some situations.

Dan, AC6LA
http://ac6la.com/