[Antennas] 17 Meter J-pole

[Terry Conboy]

At 08:41 AM 2004-08-06, Durwydd MacTara wrote:
>Any suggestions on maximizing bandwidth on one of these beasties? i would 
>like to get an swr bw of 1.5:1 for the whole band! any suggestions/ideas 
>gladly welcomed!

The 17m band is 100 kHz wide which is only a 0.55% bandwidth, compared to 
2.74% for the 2m band.  It should be a piece of cake to make a J-pole cover 
17m.

A center-fed vertical dipole for 17m using #14 wire is about 740 kHz wide 
at 1.5:1 (referenced to 75 ohms).  With 3/4 inch tubing, the bandwidth is 
over 1 MHz.

73,
Terry