[Premium-Rx] B&W Antenna for sale

Terry O' watkins-johnson at terryo.org
Tue May 3 22:29:52 EDT 2011


It's just a T2FD antenna.  Tons of info on the internet on how to make 
them.  Basically just broadening the bandwidth by lowering the Q with a 
swamping resistor.

I've strung a couple together over the years.  They are adequate, 
especially for receiving on HF where the high atmospheric noise masks 
the lost antenna gain.  If fact the T2FD sounds like it works better 
than other antennas because it is quieter due to its built-in signal 
attenuation.  This is misleading to many folks.

But transmitting into an antenna effectively paralleled with a dummy 
load is a pretty inefficient way to do things.  No way I'd ever pay 
someone for one for that use.

Terry O'
http://watkins-johnson.terryo


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