Took a 40m dipole and put the ends together with a zip tie (so not connected) then hung it as a triangle?? You STILL have a dipole...now in the shape of a triangle.....
no big whoop here.... Chris WB5ITT On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 10:11 AM M Reiter via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote: > This morning i took a 40m dipole attached the wire ends with a zip tie. > (No metal to metal connection) And hung it up as a triangle with no > measurents the top was at the top of my mast and the bottom was as high as > i could stand on a chair.. I was lazy and just attached it to my radio > checked swr on 40m to 10m and since 20m was less than 2:1 i hit tune. Made > a 59 contact in mississippi. Whats my point??? Well i have read hundreds > of pages about antennas this design is not in any of them and still have no > idea why any of this works. > Marc KI5ZHO > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > BVARC@bvarc.org > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/ >
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