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Hello Doc: How have you ben doing?

Doc said:
I'm afraid not. That coil is a loading coil for 80 meters, has nothing to do with the 40 meter antenna which is located below the 80 meter antenna.

The 80 and 40 meter antenna is one wire, with the loading coils are for 80 meters. Thats why I believe the 40 meter antenna has a wider bandwidth than the others. And I looked over the coils and did not see any capacitor so the coils are loaded coils not traps.

The antenna has three wires, the 80 / 40 meter wire, the 20 meter wire and the 10 meter wire. Mole has a pictire there showing the three wires and loading coil arrangement.

Intreresting to note that a lot of the dipole antennas are not supplied with Baluns. A older gentelmen in Mojave asked us locals for help on a dipole antenna for the ham bands. We installed a Balun and tuned the antenna for 80 and 40 meters and it significantly increased the antennas performance.

<blockquote data-quote="Jay in the Mojave" data-source="post: 120523" data-attributes="member: 120">Hello Doc:&nbsp; How have you ben doing?Doc said: I&#039;m afraid not. That coil is a loading coil for 80 meters, has nothing to do with the 40 meter antenna which is located below the 80 meter antenna.The 80 and 40 meter antenna is one wire, with the loading coils are for 80 meters. Thats why I believe the 40 meter antenna has a wider bandwidth than the others. And I looked over the coils and did not see any capacitor so the coils are loaded coils not traps.The antenna has three wires, the 80 / 40 meter wire, the 20 meter wire and the 10 meter wire. Mole has a pictire there showing the three wires and loading coil arrangement.Intreresting to note that a lot of the dipole antennas are not supplied with Baluns. A older gentelmen in Mojave asked us locals for help on a dipole antenna for the ham bands. We installed a Balun and tuned the antenna for 80 and 40 meters and it significantly increased the antennas performance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay in the Mojave, post: 120523, member: 120"] Hello Doc: How have you ben doing? Doc said: I'm afraid not. That coil is a loading coil for 80 meters, has nothing to do with the 40 meter antenna which is located below the 80 meter antenna. The 80 and 40 meter antenna is one wire, with the loading coils are for 80 meters. Thats why I believe the 40 meter antenna has a wider bandwidth than the others. And I looked over the coils and did not see any capacitor so the coils are loaded coils not traps. The antenna has three wires, the 80 / 40 meter wire, the 20 meter wire and the 10 meter wire. Mole has a pictire there showing the three wires and loading coil arrangement. Intreresting to note that a lot of the dipole antennas are not supplied with Baluns. A older gentelmen in Mojave asked us locals for help on a dipole antenna for the ham bands. We installed a Balun and tuned the antenna for 80 and 40 meters and it significantly increased the antennas performance. [/QUOTE]

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