"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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JJ wrote:
Brian Kelly wrote in message ...

Bilge. All of it. A 66 foot dipole is roughly a *half wave* dipole
on 40M and a 134 foot dipole is roughly a *half wave* dipole on
80M. A 33 foot long center-fed dipole is a quarter wavelength long
on 40M but it is not resonant on 40M and ya better not get stupid
and feed it with coax then just plug it into the back of yer radio
if ya wanna work anybody with it.



A search on google on quarter wave dipole will give plenty of
sources.


That's where we started on this sorry thread. Go back and read the
posts, including my 1/4 vs 1/2 wave dipole design done in EZNEC, and
then let us know how well a 1/4 wave dipole works.

Then why don't you build a 1/4 wave dipole for whatever band gets you
into Central PA. We'll do a sked, and see how well your antenna works.

- Mike KB3EIA -



Why bother ? I just used my 20 meter dipole, coax fed with 50 ohm cable on
7.030. The SWR was off the scale.

I then hit the tune button on my FT-1000mp and that piece of junk wouldn't
tune it. So I called CQ for a couple of hours. No replies.

I then called my buddy across town to fire up and give me a listen. I was
S1 and almost in the noise.

So, for an experiment, knowing it was just a lark because the Texas Twit
said so, I hooked up my 40 meter half wave, center fed with 50 ohm coax.
My signal was now 30 db over S9.

Can you get the Texas Twit to explain this for me please.

Dan/W4NTI