The antenna Jim's is referring to (below) is ... I believe ... better known as a "T2FD". In a case of conning the unknowing B & W ... and maybe even themselves ... sold hundreds of them to the Army National Guard. You see them hanging above every armory here in MT.
> Yes, but as noted above, not in a good way. :) There's a folded dipole >> antenna made with a big resistor in the middle of it, the effect of which >> is to "broadband" it by "swamping" the resonance, AND to burn half of the >> transmitter power. In other words, the transmitter puts power into the >> antenna, but half of it is wasted in that resistor. >> > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
