Good Day Everyone.
We all recognize a doublet dipole, correct? What I am about to describe is similar but with one major difference.
Take a piece of TV twinlead and cut it to a half wavelength for say, the center of the 20m band. Remove a half inch of insulation from both ends, twist leads together and solder.
Locate the center of the length of twinlead and remove a half inch of insulation from only one lead, cut single lead in center and connect this to a quarter wavelength long length of twinlead.
What we have here resembles a dipole but I'm having difficulty looking it up because I don't know what to call it. A flat loop? The reason I find the design interesting is because I wonder if it will work for a 40/20m set up where the antenna described above is the 20m meter section and then add a single piece of wire to each twisted soldered end to extend the resonance to 40m.
I was discussing this yesterday with an Island member but when I said doublet, I really meant the design described above.
Thoughts? Opinions.
The cold hard facts?