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Old September 9th 07, 04:31 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Dipole IN a rain gutter..

On Sep 8, 7:09 pm, Owen Duffy wrote:


My study of a typical Double Bazooka antenna system athttp://www.vk1od.net/DoubleBazooka/index.htmindicates that although it
might have slightly greater VSWR bandwidth (FWIW), it has more loss than
a conventional dipole.


I believe Walter Maxwell also wrote an article about that a few years
back.
There is no free lunch with the double bazookas. I don't use them
myself.
Not so much because of the slight extra loss, more that coax weighs
too much to use as antenna wire unless you have really strong
supports.
Regular wire is also a good bit cheaper. :/
MK