On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:15:05 -0500, "Dave VanHorn"
wrote:


So I can feed my Ground plane or quad with a balun, then its a dipole?

no, it's not. be careful, you're making my case.

No, you said:

in order to be a dipole, it has to be fed with two signals, 180
degrees out of phase, and equal ampliude.

Be careful, your hurting your case, so by what you posted any antenna
can be a dipole if it meets the requirement of being fed two 180 out
of phase signals of equal amplitude?


a proper dipole is resonant, given a balanced feed, and therefore does not
put significant signal onto the coax shield. /or it's fed with ladder line,
from a balun in your tuner/



So, we all use improper dipoles, big deal. They are still dipoles,
spend some time building and using them, in real on the air tests, not
in your lab. Balun manufacturers won't make claims of significant
signal gains.

I'll keep building my dipoles without a balun, fed with coax, and be
very happy with how well they work.