[Elecraft] Anyone using a DESpole?

[Walter Underwood]

I can’t tell whether it is a coupled-resonator dipole or a fan dipole. I’m betting on the latter. I don’t think you could cover that much bandwidth with a coupled-resonator design.

The drooping ends are a reasonable choice for a limited space dipole.

wunder
K6WRU
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

On May 12, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Wes (N7WS) <wes at triconet.org> wrote:

> There was a non-technical review of it in the March 2014 QST (p.54)
> 
> I'm put off by the hype: "/*Breakthrough electromagnetic and mechanical engineering powers high-performance dipole arrays covering multiple bands with full-size efficiency. "
> 
> */This appears to be nothing more than what Gary Breed calls a "coupled-resonator dipole" in, /The ARRL Antenna Compendium, Vol 5./ and republished in the /ARRL Antenna Book.///(Chapter 10.5) in the latest edition.//Hardly a breakthrough./
> 
> /I'm looking at building one, without the bent elements, for the WARC bands.
> 
> Wes  N7WS
> /*
> */
> 
> 
> On 5/12/2015 9:00 AM, Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO wrote:
>> I'm looking at an interesting antenna, the Innovantennas DESpole (see <http://despole.com/> ). Does anyone have any experience with it?
> 
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