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My very first antenna as a novice back in 1956 was an 80 meter dipole
with a 40 meter dipole hung underneath it. The end of the 40 meter
dipole was attached to the 80 meter dipole using a short piece
of nylon cord as I recall. They were fed in parallel with 72-ohm
twin lead, but that was in the days of the hefty pi network. Today
such an antenna would probably be fed with 50-ohm coax through a 1:1
balun. It worked on 80, 40, and 15, which were the only bands open
to novices at that time.
73,
Dave, W7OQ
At 05:46 AM 3/2/2015, you wrote:
>Thanks to all of you guys that passed on info concerning the windom
>antenna. I also have a 80, 40 meter fan dipole but the only way I can put
>it up is to hang the 40 meter beneath the 80 meter antenna. I have never
>had any luck at doing that but it works for Alpha Delta antennas. I might
>try doing this again instead of the windom but I am not excited about
>trying it again. If any of you guys have any suggestions on this please do
>not hesitate to let me know.. I can run one leg of the antenna north and
>south and the other leg of the antenna east and west and absolutely no
>other way. This is the situation I am in On the north and south leg there
>is lots of tree limbs protruding over from next door property that will be
>touching the antenna but the antennas are both insulated and this might
>help some.
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>Thanks again,
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