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Design Goals
Like many fellow radio amateurs, I own a fairly standard shortwave radio station consisting out of a good quality HF transceiver driving a 1kW tube power amplifier.
PA output filter-tank
I never chose to spend money on a kW-rated (balanced) antenna-tuner since the adjustable pi-network of the output filter-tank of my power amplifier allows me to tune out VSWRs of up to 3÷1. The goal that I set out was to design an HF antenna, with a VSWR of 3÷1 or less over the full bandwidth of as many amateur radio HF bands as possible, with a preference for the low- and the non-WARC bands. This design goal has been achived with a new kind of antenna;
The Center-Loaded Off-Center-Fed Dipole Antenna (CL-OCFD)
In order not to tease your curiosity any further, you will find an EZNEC-calculated VSWR-graph of the antenna below. This is an antenna that works without a tuner over the entire bandwidth of the 80, 40, 30, 20, 15 and 10m-band, simply by adjusting the output-tank of your tube power amplifier. (If you have a transistor amplifier as a final stage, you definitely will need an antenna-tuner though.) In such, this antenna is the first single-wire antenna described in literature offering these capabilities.
