The answer is 7 feet. Want proof, try it and measure the result in the
resonance point. But if you bend it at some angle it will be nearer 8 feet,
but a little less. If you fold it back 3 feet away it will be very near 8 feet.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:12 AM, "McClure, Rob K via BVARC"
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all,
I have a question and I want to run this by the brain trust to see if I’m right.
Say I have a dipole with flex weave elements that are each 8 feet long.
If I take the last foot of each element and fold it back on itself and secure
with miracle tape, electrical tape or tie wraps, is the electrical length of
each element now 7 feet?
The reason why I’m asking is that a friend of mine has a 40m dipole and I want
to help him tune the antenna, but I don’t want to cut anything just yet, and I
wanted to know if I could make it ‘electrically’ shorter via the method
outlined above.
Thanks in advance everyone!
73, Rob, KC5RET
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