BH: Again Congrats and Keep going!
Here's a couple of Terms you'll find most Hams using.
Now this is not a slam by any means. Your doing Fab OM
In the context your asking substitute the word;
Radial for Element: When speaking in regards to a DIpole...a dipole has 2 elements or (2) radiating elements for each band.
A Radial is a term MOST commonly used as a component of a Vertically polarized antenna...A Vertical Ground Plane Antenna...
Again this can start a whole thread by itself, but I think most here will agree these terms are most Generally used in this form.
Don't get to lost on these tuning points W9CLL is correct. Even with the best calculations your going to have to make adjustments to lengths of the elements
The 468/Freq in Mhz in most cases will be Long...This will mean that the Frequency you calculated your elements for will not truly be where the antenna is actually resonant. Most generally it will be below or lower in frequency. Don't fret this, as every location and antenna situation can be different.
Now not to confuse your question.
Here's some good frequencies to try your element calculations
10m-28.400
20m-14.275
40m-7.100
80m-3.900
These again are just my suggestions, but over time I've found these good points to shoot for when building dipoles for the General Class Phone bands
Dinner Call!
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All the Best
Gary
