3 Wired Antenna Build.
The design I have seen is a 3 wired type each side, where the 3 wires join
together at each end.
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Someone mentioned a bowtie, but with just a bit of not-looking-carefully-
enuf, it might be a three-wire folded dipole?
IIRC, put a one-wire (each side) dipole high enuf and its impedance is
about 72 ohms.
Use two wires and get 2x2x72 = 288 ohms (which everyone says matches
300-ohm line).
Use three wires and get 3x3x72 = about 650 ohms, which might be well fed
with open-wire feeders?
I also recall folded dipoles are somewhat more broad-band than single-wire
dipoles. (Because they are effectively "thicker"?)
Brings up another question: can folded-dipoles be good multi-band antennas?
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