[Heathkit] Broadband dipoles

[Peter Markavage]

It almost sounds like an inverted Vee turnstyle antenna except you
normally feed the second Vee with a quarter wave length of 75 ohm cable
between it and the other antenna input if you're using 50 ohm coax to
feed the "array". This provides you with a 360 onmi directional pattern
generally good for the frequencies at which the antennas are cut. I'm not
sure what kind of radiation pattern you're getting just putting the
antennas in parallel and at 90 degrees to each other. Were you feeding
them with open wire line? 

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:18:16 -0800 "Kenneth G. Gordon"
<kgordon2006 at verizon.net> writes:
> On 24 Nov 2006 at 18:58, crawfish wrote:
> 
> > One antenna we used on Field Day was what a friend called the
> > Inverted-X, which was two inverted-vees at right angles, one cut 
> for
> > 3900 and the other for 3600. Each fed with separate feedlines.
> 
> I've used a similar antenna in the past. You do not need separate 
> feedlines. Just connect them together at the top insulator, spread 
> them 
> out at "90 degrees opposing" (one E-W, one N-S), and have at it.
> 
> Ken Gordon W7EKB