"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Kim W5TIT wrote:

Well, DICK, make that dick, matching is the name of the game with nearly
any
"wire" type antenna, so you must be too dumbed down to pick up on that
concept. It doesn't matter the matching, it was said first there was no
such thing as a 1/4 wave antenna. Then, when proof positive was given,
the
*cough* superior hams (such as you in your mind) said "it would never
work."
Then, when proof positive was given, all that's being done now is
sneering.

So, superior ham(s) et al, try again....


This is a strange one to argue about. And I make no claims of superiority.

That there can be a 1/n antenna that consists of 2 equal sections is not
the argument, or at least it shouldn't be.

This type of antenna can be any fraction, even 25/32's (the fraction of
a quart in a Fosters lager "oil can") How they will perform is another
matter.

On a ARS test, the likelyhood of the question "design a 1/4 wave dipole
would no more likely come up than my 25/32 wave dipole. they will want
you to design an antenna that has a particular impedence at the desired
frequency. What is the impedence of a 1/4 wave dipole?

My antenna is 96 feet total length, cut as a general purpose dipole. I
use a tuner and ladder line to match impedence with my transmitter. But
I would never name it a 1/n dipole.

- Mike KB3EIA -


You can name it (or not) anything you like. I have an Alpha-Delta DXCC and
it can be used as a 1/4 (or "shortened as they say) wave dipole on 80M. It
works great and was the antenna I used at this time of year when MARS freqs
are beginning to get real noisy. Go to a longwire, go to the sloper, go to
the A-99 and the noise floor was just enough to make everyone noncopyable.

Go to the AD and everything cleared up. No one ever had a bad thing to say
about signal, so I go by the non-reports.

The point, in this debate--once again--is that there are people saying
there's no such thing, it'd never work, etc., etc. There are people here
saying not only that there is such a thing but that there are websites with
technical discussions on the 1/4 wave dipole (for all kinds of bands) and
there are people here using them and telling the results. But, the ones who
are using them and have results with them, and who have provided the
websites with technical discussions are getting told--once again--that they
are dumbed down.

Sayin' it don't make it so. And, since that is the mentality that often
develops with any kind of attempt at anything remotely "real" ham radio,
then that is why we "dumbed down" hams don't even regard this newsgroup as a
place to try such conversation.

Kim W5TIT