CQ Amateur Radio

Inexpensively Double Your Radiated Power Stacked Dipoles for 10 Meters

en meters is back! The band is open now and will be for several more years as Cycle 25 peaks. It’s best to get most antennas as high as possible, but a 10-meter dipole at 45 feet sends a significant amount of energy straight up where it is wasted, as shown in Figure 1. However, stacked dipoles redirect the vertical energy to a useful direction on the horizon, shown in Figure 2. The stacked dipoles

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