Comparing a folded dipole antenna with a regular dipole

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This is post 2668 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas.

Thanks to Kevin Loughin (KB9RLW) for this interesting antenna comparison. Kevin describes the advantages and disadvantages of each antenna design.

Although the basic half-wavelength dipole will fulfill most daily requirements, you may want to build a folded dipole antenna, which exhibits a bit more bandwidth.  Kevin does an excellent job of explaining the construction practices and performance issues of both antennas.

Here are a few comments from Kevin:

I did some comparisons between a regular old wire dipole and a folded dipole made out of window line. Both cut for 20 meters and both installed similarly. If you like my videos, please subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/user/loughkb?s... If you want me to keep making more videos like this, consider becoming my patron at Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/kb9rlw/ Discuss this and other videos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kb9rlw/

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