Art Unwin wrote:
On Dec 7, 1:27 pm, JIMMIE wrote:
On Dec 6, 5:44 am, EI5DD wrote:

Would anyone have a copy of an article from either 73 or CQ magazine
somewhere around the 90's which contained an article on how to
construct a Fractal Quad antenna for 10 metres. The design was based on
work done by Nathan Coen N1IR.
Steve (EI5DD)
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EI5DD
Folding wire in a fractal pattern to shorten an antenna is probably as
good as any other way of folding wire. Maybe better than some.

JImmie

Correct, Maxwell's laws referes only to the distributed loads which
remain in place no matter what you do to the wire. For way to long the
notion of straight radiators have been staked into the folk lore of
radio
by those who oppose change. Actually it was present members of this
particular group who attacked his ideas as a false technology without
presenting proof, only derision. A line eagerly joined by the pseudo
experts from the CB era, some of which remain today.


So does this fractal antenna perform better than any other antenna? They
seem like a solution so a specific problem, not as the sort of thing you
would use if say you wanted high performance or had space to put a more
conventional antenna into service.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -