Re: [TenTec] 80 meter loops

[Sinisa Hristov <shristov@ptt.yu>]

Billy Cox wrote:
 
> >How so Billy, I did not say you did not have to have a matching
> >network for a non resonant antenna.
 
> Your statement was capture area ... so why doesn't the 20m
> dipole work twice as well on 10m?  <even if matched?>


That's true. 

The "capture area" argument is valid only if signals
received by all parts of antenna are combined in-phase,
which is not case with long wires for most of directions.


73,

Sinisa  YT1NT, VA3TTN