Telamon wrote:

I don't model antennas because as don't see the need. A folded dipole is
well understood.

But it's not a simple folded dipole.

Somewhere I may have modelling data on the T2FD, but I have more
pressing things to do today.

But whatever -- I don't know why you feel the need to beat on the
thing so much. The bottom line, for /me/, is that it works and works
well. In /my/ situation, it far outperforms a well-designed end-fed
wire.

So my advice to the original poster is, go ahead and try it. For that
matter, try slinky-dipoles, end-fed wires, whatever. See what works
for you, and give it a run.

The original poster can play games like using the resistor, opening
that end of the dipole, shorting that end of the dipole, whatever.
Let him decide what works best for him.

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940