*Jim,*
* For the last 3 years we have had one of my own 130 foot, Center
Fed Dipoles at Field Day. With Window Line ( 450 ohm bought stuff ) We
have consistently outdone 3 other stations using Inverted L, Fan Dipole,
Offset Windom and pretty much All Challengers. Everybody at 100 Watts.
Everybody at the Same Location. What more can I say! Those Lobes you talked
about on the High Bands are real ... reach out and get-em on 20 Meters.
Since the guy with the Yaesu would have never understood it! ( Appliance
Operator ) I just told him that the Paragon was just that much More Radio
than he owned. I bet the poor fellow hollered for Italy on 20 for 3 hours.
Do you folks think we should tell him? Also, for 75/80 and 40 Meters, we
were as good if not better than the Highly Praised Carolina Windom.........
My/Our Multiband Dipole made 40% more contacts over the time period of the
Field Day Event..... As Walter Brennon was famous for saying..... No
Brag.... Just Fact........*
*
73 from Wade/KJ4WS*
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>wrote:
> On 5/23/2014 3:06 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
>
>> I agree with all of that, but you leave one point out. "Openwire."
>> As you well know, the impedance of an openwire dipole varies from band to
>> band and can be all over the map, up to a couple thousand Ohms.
>>
>
> Rick,
>
> I didn't leave it out at all -- it's one of the non-resonant antennas I
> talked about. This is a lousy antenna, a bad idea. Yes, the Handbook says
> it "works" on all bands. So does a light bulb. That "all band" dipole has a
> pattern that varies widely from band to band, with deep nulls in some
> directions where there are stations you would like to work.
>
> The place for antenna match boxes is to make a dipole cut for 80CW work on
> the phone band, to load a random long wire that ends in the shack, to
> correct for a dipole that isn't quite the right length.
>
> I'm a big fan of fan dipoles, which are easy to build, which work really
> well, and which have very predictable patterns. If you have room for a 20M
> dipole, you can hang a 20/15/10 fan. Barry at Hypower Antenna Company sells
> very nice loaded dipoles that also cover 30 and 40 and can fit 80M into
> about 100 ft. That was my low band antenna in Chicago. He makes a version
> for 160 and 80 with a fan element for 40 that also works very well on 30M.
>
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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