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Eric F. Richards wrote:

Telamon wrote:


I disregard everything Dave writes. If he could pay attention, which
unfortunately he can't he would recognize that the T2FD is basically a
folded dipole with modifications so it will load up on transmit. Those
modifications are a waste of time on receive and the reasons given are
the rational unlike the advice given by the short attention span guy.

As DxAce found out it will not pick up the signal levels his current
fairly long horizontal wires will with or without the T2FD
modifications.

Sorry, Telemon, but I disagree with you here. A stopped clock is
right twice a day, and so it is with Dave here.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there as I used to read David's
posts and he was lucky to be right twice a month.

Yes, the resistor is to avoid standing waves and turn it into a more
travelling wave antenna, much like such terrible receive antennas like
the Beverage and the Rhombic. (*sarcasm*)

My personal experience with wires and a T2FD is that the T2FD was
overall the better antenna with the wires having only occasional
advantages and some frequencies AND directions. The wires, BTW, have
extensive ground networks and about 20 ground radials.

For those not familiar with this antenna, this page is a good
jumping-off point for information (be sure to follow some of the
related links):

http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx...wire/t2fd.html

The late Joe Carr was an unabashed fan of this antenna, and he
certainly was a respected antenna authority for receive antennas with
a number of books under his belt, at least one of which was a
technically oriented book.

I have high regard for Joe Carr and if anyone has a need they should buy
one of his books.

I'm not surprised your experience is good with a T2FD, it's a good
design.

There is a purpose behind the T2FD design and it is for transmit and
receive. For people wanting to use it only for receive the additions to
a basic folded dipole design so it will load well on transmit over a
range of frequencies are not needed and will not help on receive.

For receive only you are much better off using a BALUN of the right
transformation depending on the basic shape of the folded dipole you
construct.

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Telamon
Ventura, California