[Elecraft] Is it my KX3/antenna or is it lousy band condx?

[Ken G Kopp]

The antenna Jim's is referring to (below) is ... I believe ... better known
as
a "T2FD".  In a case of conning the unknowing B & W ... and maybe even
themselves ... sold hundreds of them to the Army National Guard.  You see
them hanging above every armory here in MT.


> Yes, but as noted above, not in a good way. :)   There's a folded dipole
>> antenna made with a big resistor in the middle of it, the effect of which
>> is to "broadband" it by "swamping" the resonance, AND to burn half of the
>> transmitter power. In other words, the transmitter puts power into the
>> antenna, but half of it is wasted in that resistor.
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