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Old December 8th 05, 11:06 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore
 
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Default Cobra multiband dipole (linear loaded) help pse

Reg Edwards wrote:
Don't know what a Cobra is.


It's a linear loaded folding shaped like this for 1/2 of the antenna:

62 feet per side
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+----------------------------------------FP--- other side

Freq MHZ Loss relative to ideal
1.9 8 dB


The above antenna doesn't have nearly that amount of loss on 160m.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp