Thread: Folded dipole?
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Old August 28th 03, 04:16 AM
Tarmo Tammaru
 
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Cliff,

M2, HyGain, and at least one CushCraft use the 4:1 balun that consists of a
1/2 wave section of coax on some beams. Gets kind of long below 10 meters,
but no reason it wouldn't work with a folded dipole. You would end up with
about 70 Ohms.

Tam/WB2TT
"Cliff Gieseke" wrote in message
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Does anyone still use a folded dipole with an appropriate impedance matching
balun today? Not the broadband type that B & W sells, but the old monoband
basic folded dipole, that many operators used 50 years ago. ???

-- Cliff, W4ZFL