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Old October 11th 07, 07:42 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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Default Low Noise Receiving antennas

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 http://www.w5dxp.com