[Antennas] 6 meter vertical folded dipole

Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:35:22 -0500 (EST)

A folded dipole works as well as an ordinary dipole, has greater
bandwidth, and rejects even-order harmonics.  Look at DB Products'
commercial vertical arrays - all are folded dipole arrays...

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73 de KF4VOO, Brian Mulder

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, k9wkj wrote:

> J. Pinkston wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know of a source of info for building a vertical folded dipole
> >for 6 meters? I searched with Google & haven't found anything yet.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Jim Pinkston
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> why a folded dipole??
> a full size dipole is only 8ft or so
> a full size vertical dipole will out perform the folded and is easier to 
> build
> could make it from pvc pipe with wire strung on the inside
> or i made one from  1/8" stainless tubing       worked great
> 
> just some thoughts
> 
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