Absolutely, Rick. And it'll work FB down on 80 as long as the tuner can match the impedance. The penalty for a "half size" antenna (1/4 wave total center fed) over a full size dipole is only a dB or so.
A doublet is my favorite all-band antenna. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 3:49 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New list member/T1 tuner questions The specifics on the antenna are that it is center fed. The actual length of each leg is something that I personally do not know because the ham friend that helped me with it has a special tape of tape measure that is calibrated to measure antenna lengths. His is the only one of that kind that I have ever seen. The feed line is 300 ohm television twin lead. [[snip]] Hello Jim, I saw two of those tape measures once and they were actually part of a military dipole antenna system. The original antenna had 2 of them and you just pulled them ou to the coresponding frequency measurements on each side and you had a resonant dipole for that frequency. So if your friend used that to measue the wire with, then its most likely somewhere around 33 feet on each side. Being fed with 300 ohm balanced feedline makes your antenna a doublet - and a doublet is a very good all band antenna ! I use a doublet here that is 178 feet long - 89 feet per side and fed with 450 ohm feedline and it works 10 thru 160 meters via the tuner. 73 - Rick McKee, KC8AON Southern Ohio - EM88sn www.angelfire.com/electronic2/qrp With God all things are possible ~ ><(('> ~ ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
