A local OF (no names please) reports good success in broadbanding his
80-meter dipole. Sez he feeds it with 50-ohm line, cut by formula for
3650, and inserts a quarter-wave of 75-ohm coax a quarter wave down from
the feedpoint. He says it produces a double-humped SWR curve that never
approaches 1:1 but stays between 2:2 from 3500-3800.
Anyone ever tried this?
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
In wild, wonderful, fairly rare WEST Virginia
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