On 4 Dec, 01:28, John Smith wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:
...

-- The Q of the short dipole is very high, so the reactance varies very
rapidly with frequency. A matched short antenna would have an extremely
narrow bandwidth.
...

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

And, here is where a DLM antenna is nice, keep the coils of low Q and
bandwidth is "surprisingly wide."

Regards,
JS

Yup,
My 160M antenna came at at a resistive 200 ohm plus resonance and with
a bit of fiddling
I now connect the coax direct and cover the whole band. Not sure if I
would have been better off with keeping the high resistive impedance
and using a transformer but snow is on the way so beggars can't be
choosers.
Regards
Art KB9MZ........XG (uk)