[Antennas] Eighty Meter mobile or portable

[Terry Conboy]

At 11:22 AM 2008-04-23, Dick - KA5KKT/4 wrote:
>  Would it be worthwhile to consider an attaching bracket whereby the angle
>between the two can be ~120 degrees rather than 180 degrees.  Is this not
>how an Inverted Vee antenna provides an ~50 Ohm impedance as vs. the 72 or
>so Ohms of a dipole?

Most mobile whips have very low radiation resistance, so using two of 
them in a linear dipole configuration is still likely to be under 50 
ohms.  A hairpin match (a small shunt inductor across the feedpoint) 
is effective at raising the impedance to 50 ohms without further 
narrowing the bandwidth.

If you have a mobile whip that is 50 ohms without any matching 
device, it is probably very lossy.

73, Terry N6RY