Ahh yes! "The Illuminator." As I remember, he even put three bulbs in
a Vee, each decoupled to make a "Phased Illuminator." I believe he
worked all continents on the single bulb. I'd guess that all of us of a
certain age have had someone call us as we were tuning up on a light
bulb. My HOA-friendly WOOF antenna looks to be in the same class as the
Illuminator when you just look at it, however it too works. I think B&W
still sells an all-band folded dipole which for years could be seen
hanging over National Guard Armories. It has a resistor loading it,
~200 ohms I think and since most of the Guard's HF comm is fairly local
to their state, it works great for them. We seem to have grown a bit
too precise about antennas these days?
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
Jim Brown wrote on 10/30/2021 11:44 PM:
On 10/30/2021 4:47 PM, John Harper wrote:
Multiband DXCC is NOT a measure of antenna performance
Au contraire, it's one measure.
Many years ago, N6BT published a piece in QST describing how had
worked DX on a light bulb. He had carefully decoupled it so that it
was, indeed, the lightbulb doing the radiating. He included it in his
very informative self-published "Array of Light." He did the
experiment to demonstrate that "everything works," but some things
work better than others.
73, Jim K9YC
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