On Sun, 16 May 2004 21:13:58 GMT, R. David Steele
/OMEGA wrote:

http://www.bwantennas.com/

The military is using these antennas because of ALE (automatic
linking) and NVIS. I gather that while they are very broad
banded, they have less the best gain?

Any feed back?

I have used the BWD-90 for 2 months now, and love it.
I live on a city lot, and this antenna fits and performs better than
any other antenna I have tried. I've tried shortened 75m dipoles,
40 meter delta loops, and all kinds of slopers. all narrow banded and
loaded with city noise. The antenna has made the hobby fun for me
again. It is frequency agile, and has a great signal to noise ratio.
At 80 meters the antenna is only down 1 db from a standard dipole.
At 40 meters it even, there is 1db gain at 20 meters, and 3db at 10m.
(B & W,s numbers, not mine).
The botton line is if you live in the sticks with all kinds of space,
and no noise, you don't need a folded terminated dipole.
you can run wire to the cows come home,
but it's sure nice in the city.
Curt