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Old September 14th 06, 12:29 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default How much of a multiband fan antenna has to be fanned?

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:46:07 -0500, funkbastler
wrote:

If, on each side of the feed point, a single conductor runs out
to point X, with individual conductors onward from X for each
band of interest, how far from the feedpoint can X be?

(like this) /10 meters
/
FP----------------X------15 meters
\
\
\
\20 meters


Hi OM,

Good question. One that the free version of EZNEC should handle.
Given that X can vary considerably (and only you know where you want
to start), there must be a multitude of right answers. Also, each of
those multitude of right answers is probably going to have unique
lengths.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC