[Antennas] 6 meter vertical folded dipole

George, W5YR [email protected]
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:07:45 -0600


Interesting remark about folded dipoles rejecting even-order harmonics.
Could you elaborate on this, please?

Thanks.

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bmulder wrote:
> 
> 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...