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Originally Posted by colly0410
Would a folded X work any better than a normal X or was it a gimmick?
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I guess it depends on how they were connected up: if the ends of each 'leg' were simply paralleled at the feedpoint it would work as a fat element and this generally gives increased bandwidth compared with a single thin element.
This would only really be relevant though if you were trying to cover several Band-I channels where the frequency range is large compared with the resonant bandwidth of a half-wave element.
Some of the currently available DAB and Band-II dipole antennas _appear_ to be a folded dipole but the ends of each leg are paralleled at the feedpoint to give a 'fat' element.