Re: NEC-LIST:loaded dipoles

From: Chuck Counselman <ccc_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 18:45:30 -0500

At 4:37 PM -0500 3/3/02, Robert Haviland wrote:
>A way to "broadband" an antenna is to shunt the feed point with a
>resistor, say 100 ohms for a dipole. The impedance presented doesnt
>stray too much over a wide range of frequencies. Of course the
>coupling efficiency to space does change, but this is not important
>if the ambient noise is greater than system noise.

Unless you're thinking of transmitting. -Chuck

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