On Oct 9, 3:27*pm, Michael Coslo wrote:
Bob Schreibmaier wrote:
In article , says....

Has anyone ever tried putting a dipole antenna up with the center insulator
being a high power 50 ohm dummy load,then connecting the *dipole elements
across the dummy load.This would always keep a *suitable match *at 50 ohms
and satisfy the transceiver.Would most of the power go to the dummy load and
not the elements and wouldn't radiate.In thinking about this it all
logically makes sense the load would really never change or would it have
some reactance with the dipole elements.
Thanx All
Howard
VE4ISP

That is very similar to what the Maxcom Antenna Matcher
did. *It was reviewed (and panned) in November 1984 QST.
As you suspected, almost all the power would go into the
dummy load and very little would be radiated.

Honestly, it's not a very good idea. *:-)

This one is meant to be a poor antenna, for use at really close distances..

http://www.wa0dx.org/wa0itp/dlspecial.html

Here is the gold standard, the MaxCom. If you gan get the link, QST had
a review. It was a toroid, and 3 resistors. Apparently a very high
quality dummy load (these things cost between 600 to 900 dollars!

http://www.eham.net/articles/14905

Had great SWR tho'!

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Once I joke about using a CB groundplane with a 10 db pad for an all
band antenna.
I thought about this for a while and decided to try it. I did nt have
to use 10 db maybe it was only 3db or 6db I cant remember now
to get an antenna that my soliddtate transceiver with no tuner was
happy with on allHF bands. I was fairly amazed at how well the
antenna worked or at least amazed that it did work at all.

Jimmie