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.
This kit suppresses EMI and RFI generated from DC battery charger such as used on automotive batteries uo to 100 amps output.
Simple snap on the ferrite suppressors (1" hole size) onto the AC input using multiple turns through the center and do the same for the DC output cables. The more turns through the center the hiogher the RFI suppression.
Simple - Effective and Low Cost solution.to suppress charger noise fed back into AC power lines acting as RFI transmitting antennas!
Likewise Termination Resistor values vary from 500-1250 ohms and we have a good selection shown HERE: