Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Cecil Moore wrote:

Dr. Slick wrote:
A properly tuned and positioned dipole will
be resonant at only one frequency. Double-dips
are a bad sign, and the return loss suffers.

If something is wrong with a dip on 40m and a dip on 15m,
someone should warn all the hams who are using their 40m
dipoles on 15m. :-)

Forgot to add that dipoles are resonant near all odd
half-wavelengths, i.e. 0.5WL, 1.5WL, 2.5WL, 3.5WL, ...
They are also antiresonant (purely resistive) on all
integral wavelengths, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, ...

Using a Smith Chart, if one plots the feedpoint impedances
of a dipole VS frequency and connects the dots, that locus
of points will describe a (very rough) spiral. (Traversing
once around that rough spiral from resonance to resonance
is one full wavelength, not 1/2 wavelength.)


Granted, i'll give you the harmonics, but a double-dip
at for example, 88.1 and 93.7 MHz would indicate a BIG
problem!




Slick