[Elecraft] feeding a half-wave dipole with ladder line

[Jim Brown]

On 10/30/2021 11:27 AM, John Harper wrote:
> I use an 80m dipole as you describe for 30, 40, 60 and 80 meters. Before
> putting up a tower/Yagi, I used it 10-80 and have worked 8B-DXCC (CW) with
> it.

Multiband DXCC is NOT a measure of antenna performance, nor is VSWR. 
I've worked more than 250 countries on all bands above 80M, 238 on 80, 
173 on 160, 324 counting all bands. I didn't do it with a half-axxed 
antenna fed with open wire line. All of my antennas are resonant, fed 
with coax.

Multiband setups like you describe are for when you're limited in what 
you can put up, don't care to be better, or don't know the difference.

73, Jim K9YC