I am looking at building a 2M four bay antenna, But, I have a question My question is the design and construction of folded dipole antennas used as individual elements in bay type antennas. In doing research into their construction I came upon a catch. All design info I found in books, ARRL Antenna Book, etc, says a two element folded dipole has a nominal input impedance of 300 ohms. But, all sources, DB Products, Benelec, etc, I see say the nominal input impedance for each folded dipole element is 50 ohms, 300. I reference WB2EDV's article on a 440 antenna he built.
But, the bottom line is can anybody point me to where I can find the info on designing each element for 50 ohm impedance? Jeff wd4nmq
