Cecil Moore wrote:
Bill Grimwood wrote:

I don't know much about these antennas but I have a friend in Colorado
who has one and we often talk on 20 or 40 meters. He has only 100
watts output and he puts a strong signal into Alabama. It certainly
seems to work for him. I have a Carolina Windom and I believe his
Isotron performs better than my windom.


Due, no doubt, to radiation from his feedline. If you both
replaced the vertical section of your feedline with a good
ground-plane vertical, it might improve even more.


Bill;

The best antenna for you is the antenna that works. I use a B&W folded
dipole antenna daily. It does the job I need it to do. There are those
that deride it as a "lossy dummy load". What it is is an antenna that
dumps any excess energy into a 600 ohm resistor. The excess energy is
that which is reflected back into the finals by any other antenna. It
allows me to QSY and be tuned to any frequency I wish to use. In that I
use NTIA frequencies in addition to Ham frequencies this it the best
antenna for my use. As I said it works.

Dave WD9BDZ