[Elecraft] OT: B & W antenna

[WILLIS COOKE]

It is true!  It makes a good antenna that tunes easily it you want to use a QRO transmitter work like a QRP rig with a good antenna.  My Dad earned a Novice in the mid seventies at the time that my wife earned an Advanced and I earned an Extra.  He called me one evening to report that his club in Denver had an article in the newsletter for an antenna which had a good SWR on all novice bands and worked well.  They took a 30 foot aluminum vertical and connected a 75 watt incandescent light bulb between it and ground.  I told him that in the mid fifties when I was a Novice we used the same antenna, buy omitted the pole and kept it in the shack, but we called it our dummy load.  It glowed brightly with a 75 watt novice transmitter and radiated a little so that we could talk to each other across town with our dummy loads.  Any dummy load will radiate a little unless you keep it in a Faraday Cage. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke,VP TARS for 2016 K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS
      From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists at subich.com>
 To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:41 AM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: B & W antenna
   

> I have heard several stories about what it has for a resistor on it,
> if anyone knows for sure, I would be most interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2FD_antenna

73,

  ... Joe, W4TV




On 12/10/2015 1:20 AM, David Cole wrote:
> The BED-90 works fairly well on 75 Meters, about 2 S units down from a
> dipole, but it has a 1:1 on almost any frequency between 3 MHz., and 30
> Mhz., which is fine for me as I am using a KW for MARS work, and we are
> on clear frequencies...
>
> I have heard several stories about what it has for a resistor on it, if
> anyone knows for sure, I would be most interested.
>
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