It is true! It makes a good antenna that tunes easily it you want to use a QRO
transmitter work like a QRP rig with a good antenna. My Dad earned a Novice in
the mid seventies at the time that my wife earned an Advanced and I earned an
Extra. He called me one evening to report that his club in Denver had an
article in the newsletter for an antenna which had a good SWR on all novice
bands and worked well. They took a 30 foot aluminum vertical and connected a
75 watt incandescent light bulb between it and ground. I told him that in the
mid fifties when I was a Novice we used the same antenna, buy omitted the pole
and kept it in the shack, but we called it our dummy load. It glowed brightly
with a 75 watt novice transmitter and radiated a little so that we could talk
to each other across town with our dummy loads. Any dummy load will radiate a
little unless you keep it in a Faraday Cage. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke,VP TARS for
2016 K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <li...@subich.com>
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: B & W antenna
> I have heard several stories about what it has for a resistor on it,
> if anyone knows for sure, I would be most interested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2FD_antenna
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 12/10/2015 1:20 AM, David Cole wrote:
> The BED-90 works fairly well on 75 Meters, about 2 S units down from a
> dipole, but it has a 1:1 on almost any frequency between 3 MHz., and 30
> Mhz., which is fine for me as I am using a KW for MARS work, and we are
> on clear frequencies...
>
> I have heard several stories about what it has for a resistor on it, if
> anyone knows for sure, I would be most interested.
>
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