• [VK2TPM] An off centre fed dipole antenna for more bands

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    marxy's musing on technology

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    An off centre fed dipole antenna for more bands

    Posted: 15 Jan 2022 10:00 PM PST http://blog.marxy.org/2022/01/an-off-centre-fed-dipole-antenna-for.html

    It's been great having a dipole up high in the trees but I wanted to be
    able to use more bands so I made an off centre fed dipole, cut for 80, fed with a 4:1 balun. This gives me a number of bands with a low enough
    reactance that the IC-7300's tuner can match it. Here's a plot using AntScope2 on macOS.The grey bars are ham bands. I'm sweeping from 3MHz to 30Mhz. As you can see I get low SWR on

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