[Antennas] Ham stick dipole

[cboone at earthlink.net]

When you tuned each separate Hamstick, what was making up the other half of the dipole?? When you attached the other Hamstick, it is much shorter and reactive compared to a full size element....so yes, you do need to retune....your antenna has changed and thus resonance has changed too.
Also expect this vertical dipole (why not make a ground place instead if you can...) to radiate less efficient than a single Hamstick over a decent ground plane.

Chris
WB5ITT

-----Original Message-----
>From: Frederick <frederick at my180.net>
>Sent: Jun 13, 2007 2:52 PM
>To: antennas at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Antennas] Ham stick dipole
>
>Hi
>     Wanting to build a vertical dipole the quick and easy way, I bought a 
>pair of 75 meter hamsticks and the matching dipole bracket. I used a noise 
>bridge and SWR meter and tuned each hamstick to be resonate just above 3.9 
>MHz. When I then mounted both antennas on the bracket the resonate frequency 
>dropped to 3.4 MHz. Any ideas on what happened? Do I really need to go 
>through the entire tuning process again?
>     Thank you.
>
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>Mark
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