RadioBanter - Mystery Antenna?

On 2007-06-10, John Smith I wrote:
Somehow, this particular antenna has never come to my attention.

Anyone ever construct/operate one? Performance?

http://www.w5gi.com/mysteryantenna.htm

John, I built one several years ago, mostly out of curiosity, primarily to
use as a portable antenna when I went to state parks and that sort of thing.
I've used it at field day with success. It tunes nicely on all bands 80m-10m
with my MFJ tuner. I did put a ferrite bead balun between the ladder line
feed and the coax to the rig. Apparently John (W5GI) touts this as having 6
lobes on 20m instead of the g5rv 4. I've never tried to model it.

It was never actually used any length of time here at the home and have no
A/B comparisons so will not make any claims, which are generally meaningless
anyway. hi I was talking to a ham the other night who built one and had two
other regular dipoles he compared it with and said the 'mystery' was much
better except in one circumstance, probably a null in the lobes in that
direction. Obviously, I can't verify his claim.

Anyway was fun to build, but may not perform any better than a good dipole
fed with ladder line and a good transmatch. :) I use mine for multiband
operation when camping, etc. so fullfills that need.

73 ...Edwin, KD5ZLB
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