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 RFi kit was created to eliminate RFI issues from the excellent Heil Parametric Receive Audio System which can highly tailor audio signal from your radio to a a powered speaker or multiple headphones. However when installed near a high powered HF antenna it can ave RFi issues. This kit was created out of necessity from a ham using high power antennas near the radio. The use of the ferrite filters completely eliminated the RFI issue allowing the ham to enjoy the use of the PRAS.
The ferrite filters are selected to suppress 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. See product picture for suggested filter use.
What is included in the kit?
The RFI-PRAS kit contains a a ring filter for the AC power cord used on the DC supply cables to the PRAS and high powered speakerr and 3 additional snap-on filters for the both ends of the speaker cable and for the audio input (from the transceiver/audio source) to the PRAS..
You get 1 ring filter and 5 1/2" ID snap on filters and an installation manual.
Likewise Termination Resistor values vary from 500-1250 ohms and we have a good selection shown HERE: