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Old July 4th 06, 06:44 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Reg Edwards Reg Edwards is offline
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Default Creating dual band HF antennas using a loading coils.


"Owen Duffy" wrote
Yes, but the trap (which is a parallel tuned circuit) doesn't need

to
be resonant in one of the operating bands, and there are reasons for
choosing resonance other than at an operating frequency. For

example,
you can design a 40/80 trapped antenna that uses a trap resonant
around 6MHz.

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Use program NOTATRAP. The parallel tuned circuit is not a trap at
either of the operating frequencies. Its resonant frequency lies in
between the two operating frequencies. The two operating frequencies
do not necessarily have to be harmonically related.
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