Broad Band Terminated Dipoles (BBTD), Tilted Terminated Fold Dipoles (T2FD) and Balanced Termination Folded Dipole BTFD) antennas can be designed to cover a large range of frequencies between 1.8 30 MHz. Longer length antennas generally provide better low frequency efficiency but take up a larger footprint of land. One BBTD that has worked well at the AK6R antenna farm is shown below. Many other designs are available and can be found at www.HFLINK.COM as well as other internet sites. Your mileage may vary using this antenna, but as a general coverage antenna for ham and shortwave broadcast, the simplicity can’t be beat even though an individual dipole on a specific band may out perform this broad band dipole. Palomar Engineers has all the parts you need to build this antenna, so why not give it a try?
Depending on the source of the antenna design, different value baluns are specified. Our Bullet(TM) baluns in ratios of 9:1, 12:1 and 16:1 are excellent for this type of antenna as they are broadband from 1.8-61 MHz and will take up to 500 watts PEP.
The audiophile RFi kit is specifically designed to suppress audio interference triggered by Radio Frequency Interference problems experienced in typical audiophile systems using a tuner/preamp/receiver, turn table, CD player and speaker system. The ferrite filters are selected to eliminate RFI from 1 to 300 MHz. The filters are easy to install, don’t require modification of the protected equipment and work in almost all cases.
What is included in the kit?
The Audiophile RFI kit contains a a 4 ring filters for the AC power cord and 8 snap-on filters (4-1/2" ID, and 4-3/8' ID) for the device interconnect wires as well as the speaker wires.
Likewise Termination Resistor values vary from 500-1250 ohms and we have a good selection shown HERE: