"Jan Van Belle" wrote in message
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Hello all,

The last days I was searching for more info o how to build fratal
antennas on the web. But besides lots of links to fractenna.com and a few
powerpoint slides I found nothing.

Has anyone sucessfully build such an antenna for HF? Is anyone using it?

Kind regards,

Jan, ON5DOA

A fractal antenna is just another antenna that uses lumped inductance to
shrink the size of the antenna along with destroying the radiation pattern.
The arrl has a nice explantion of why antennas radiate on their web site.
Aplly this info to fractals and small coils and it is easy to see why they
dont work worth a hoot.