You can usually drive resonant dipoles in parallel without a diplexer. This is how fan dipoles work. The non-resonant ones will present a high impedance, so the power goes to the resonant one.
wunder K6WRU On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Robert Friess wrote: > Either T130-6 or T130-2 should do nicely. > > 73, > Bob, N6CM > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:22 PM, ab2tc <ab...@arrl.net> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I apologize if this is a little bit OT, but it isn't really. My remote >> KAT500 is currently maxed out with a G5RV and two resonant dipoles for 10m >> and 15m (all working great). I am looking for an easy way to add my 80m >> resonant dipole to the mix and have decided that building a diplexer that >> would enable me to share one port for the 10m and 80m antennas should be an >> easy way to accomplish this. Design programs for these are easy to find and >> basically tell me that I need two inductors about 1.1-1.2uH. What toroid >> core should I choose for bulding an efficient inductor like this that would >> handle at least 500W on 3.8MHz and 28.5MHz? >> >> AB2TC - Knut >> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
