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Old November 29th 15, 01:08 PM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Fred Roberts Fred Roberts is offline
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Default Follow up to Spike ;Bent dipoles?

On 29/11/2015 12:25, gareth wrote:

Thinking about how drooping the radials on a ground plane brings the
feed impedance from 35 up to 50 ohms, I presume that bending a
dipole has the same type of effect of reducing down from 72 ohms?


A good point and something I hadn't considered!



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