Dick Carroll wrote in message ...

I would think you'd know that ladder line and a fixed dipole, while they
will
work well on a wide range of bands and frequencies, are not the cureall for
all
ills.

I never said they were.

Attempting to match a dipole at it's highest natural impedance point isn't
even close to "good engineering practice". It isn't even good "poor
engineering
practice". There are antennas that just can't be adequately matched and
this is
one.

I never said it was "good or bad engineering practrice".

You can always call a dipole whatever you want it to be. A halfwave dipole
at
40 meters is a quarterwave dipole at 80 meters, if you want it to be that
way.
But it sure isn't very smart. And don't expect it to work out.

I never said it would. Some claimed there is no such thing as a 1/4 wave
dipole, I simply stated there is, I never made any claims it would be a good
antenna.

Gee, your reading comprehension isn't any better than some of the others.