[Antennas] Dipole

[Wes (N7WS) and Linda]

At 12:20 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, WD8OKN de Michigan wrote:
>I am building a multi-band dipole.  It will be cut for 40m, 20m, and 10m.
> I've been told to be careful and I've read that you should NOT run the
>legs of the dipole parallel with each other.    I've read they need to be
>perpendicular.  However, I've seen many dipoles built this way
>(parallel).
>
>What are the groups thoughts?

I don't know about the group, but my thoughts are thus:

You can run the wires parallel to each other but you should expect more
interaction between them.  In other words, they will be harder to prune to
resonance.  Start with the longest element and work up.

The greater the angular separation between them, the lower the interaction.
 At 90 degrees there is in theory no interaction.  But you have three
wires, so it's a bit difficult to keep them all at 90 degrees to each other :)