[Antennas] Gain with wire ...

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Are you saying that he used 600 feet of wire in a 600 ohm top-fed 
folded-dipole type doublet?

Or, that he folded back the 300 feet of wire, top fed with 600 ohm 
feedline so as to actually only use 150 feet in length?

Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e

> If you have the room the 300 foot doublet is a great antenna.  The late
> Wilson Rowell (W2HHL)SK, had one at 65 feet in a folded doublet
> configuration with the top wires spaced about 6 inches and fed with
> 600 ohm open line.  He used to work the world on 160 thru 10.  By the
> way Wilson got me started in ham radio 54 years ago.  The beauty
> of this configuration is that you can apply 10 volts from a husky
> filament transformer across the 600 ohm line and de-ice the antenna
> in the winter in the north where radial ice is common.
> 
> 73 Bob