James P. Cassidy wrote:
> At the risk of being fatally flamed I want to add a couple cents worth to
> the B & W Antenna issue.
>
> I had read the same info for many years about the ineffectiveness of the B
> & W antenna. This past spring I operated at a station that uses one and
> was slightly amazed at the performance. No, its not a world beater contest
> antenna but did work well enough in the CQ WPX SSB contest to work quite a
> few stations on 160,80 and 40m. There was no other antennas for those
> bands to compare with but the main point is that it did radiate well enough
> for some QSOs. Of course in the contest situation there was no accurate
> signal reports and its very likely that the signal was below that of a
> conventional dipole.
>
> The bottom line was that the station was capable of making contacts.
>
> And before I catch too much flaming, the antenna is not at my station.
> Only at a friends with somewhat limited space for wire antennas.
>
> 73 Jim KI7Y
The B&W antenna is known as a T2FD (tilted, terminated folded dipole).
There is a good write-up on W4RNL's site:
http://www.cebik.com/wire/t2fd.html
73, Roger
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