Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Tony Giacometti wrote:
Or should I take down my vertical transmitting antenna and replace it with a
T2FD?
Neither. I was suggesting (and obviously not very well) that you use it as
a receiving antenna. It's very low noise. It makes a good transmitting
antenna too, but you need to have a big enough balun and termination
resistor to handle the power.
This could be a very interesting experiment. Try the
T2FD but in steps.
1. Ordinary horizontal single-wire dipole
2. Ordinary horizontal folded dipole
3. T2FD
Reporting the noise on those three configurations
vs the vertical would be of wide interest.
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73, Cecil
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