On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:21:35 +0000, Bill wrote:

Hi,
does any one have constructive comments about this type of
aerial?

http://www.bwantennas.com/ama/fdipole.ama.htm

How would it compare against a dipole dedicated to a specific frequency
for instance? I assume not as well, but how much less?

All sensible replies much appreciated, thank you.

It's nice and quite. Great for urban hams. It matches very well on all
bands if you have a radio with a built in tuner. I would recommend this
antenna over anything else if you had but room for one antenna.

I use 1/4 fiberglass rods for the spreaders but the two end spreaders are
1/2 PVC. The flying terminating resistor was the hard part. I used 450ohm
feed line at the feed point instead of flying the balum to keep the
center of the antenna light as there was already too much weight in the
center from the flying load resistor. If your not running more than 100
watts, you can use a smaller resistor.

hope this helps!