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"Richard Clark"
A full wave antenna has no advantage over a half wave. It's mismatch is very bad. No BalUn is going to fix that. _____________ The peak, free-space gain of a full-wave linear dipole is about 1.65 dB greater than that of a 1/2-wave dipole. Its center fed impedance is high, but can be transformed at its feedpoint to match conventional transmission lines. Many AM broadcast stations use a 1/2-wave vertical monopole, which when working against a very good radial ground system constitutes a full-wave antenna. They do it to improve their groundwave field compared to a 1/4 wave monopole, and to reduce nighttime interference to their groundwave by their own skywave. But maybe the typical amateur operator would not consider these benefits worth the effort. RF |
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