Cecil Moore wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:
If you think a DC short will reduce noise, why not just put an RF choke
or moderate value resistor across the feedline conductors of a
conventional dipole?

Because that still leaves only one path for the RF
precipitation static, i.e. through the receiver. The RF
is not going to travel through the high impedance of the
RF choke but it will travel through the lower impedance
of the other conductor in a folded dipole or loop if it
exists.

Then you also need a short across the other side of the folden dipole
or loop (the feedpoint) and then all of those pesky noise problems are
completely solved. If you add a 10 dB attenuator between there and the
input to the transmission line then you will also have a nearly flat
SWR too.

A nearly perfect antenna. Completely flat SWR, totally noise free and
with equal gain in all directions! What more could you ask for?

Wes N7WS