Broadband dipole

Karl W4KRL W4KRL at arrl.net
Mon Jun 23 08:36:05 CDT 2008


According to this patent the antenna has the wonderful property of a visual
standing wave ratio. Not only is it flat from dc to light but you don’t need
an SWR meter to prove it!

73 Karl W4KRL

From: tacos-bounces+w4krl=arrl.net at amrad.org
[mailto:tacos-bounces+w4krl=arrl.net at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Bill Liles
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:30 AM
To: tacos at amrad.org
Subject: Re: Broadband dipole

Folks, the patent number for this antenna is 4,423,423 dated Dec. 27,1983. 
If you wished to download the patent for free a good site is
www.pat2pdf.org.  Bill

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM, <riese-k3djc at juno.com> wrote:

I have no experience but I understand they don't work well
but I know some AM ers that like them because they match
well and don't cause flash over on converted AM BC transmitters  ??

Bob K3DJC

nbb
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:49:05 -0400 andre kesteloot
<andre.kesteloot at verizon.net> writes:
> Here is a link to the broadband dipole we discussed today at Tacos
> 73
> André
>
> http://www.bwantennas.com/ama/fdipole.ama.htm





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