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

[Fred]

Ahh yes!  "The Illuminator."  As I remember, he even put three bulbs in 
a Vee, each decoupled to make a "Phased Illuminator."  I believe he 
worked all continents on the single bulb.  I'd guess that all of us of a 
certain age have had someone call us as we were tuning up on a light 
bulb.  My HOA-friendly WOOF antenna looks to be in the same class as the 
Illuminator when you just look at it, however it too works.  I think B&W 
still sells an all-band folded dipole which for years could be seen 
hanging over National Guard Armories.  It has a resistor loading it, 
~200 ohms I think and since most of the Guard's HF comm is fairly local 
to their state, it works great for them.  We seem to have grown a bit 
too precise about antennas these days?

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

Jim Brown wrote on 10/30/2021 11:44 PM:
> On 10/30/2021 4:47 PM, John Harper wrote:
>>> Multiband DXCC is NOT a measure of antenna performance
>> Au contraire, it's one measure.
>
> Many years ago, N6BT published a piece in QST describing how had 
> worked DX on a light bulb. He had carefully decoupled it so that it 
> was, indeed, the lightbulb doing the radiating. He included it in his 
> very informative self-published "Array of Light." He did the 
> experiment to demonstrate that "everything works," but some things 
> work better than others.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered to k6dgwnv at gmail.com 

-- 



-- 
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
https://www.avg.com