John wrote: 
"I`ll go back and try again." 
 
John has the best help there is in Roy Lewallen, the creator of EZNEC. 
The idea of breaking the behavior of a folded dipole or unipole into its 
differential (transmission line)-mode and common (antenna)-mode 
behaviors goes back  according to Paul H. Lee in "The Amateur Radio 
Vertical Antenna Handbook" to W.V. Roberts, "Input Impedance of a Folded 
Dipole", RCA Review, Vol.8, No.2, June 1947, p. 289. 
 
Around the 1/4-wave length, the folded monopole`s resistance is steadily 
rising with frequency. High radiation resistance as compared with loss 
is good. This happens with the open-circuit 1/4-wave vertical too. 
 
Around the 1/4-wave length, the folded monopole undergoes an abrupt 
change from inductive reactance when it is too short for resonance to 
capacitive reactance when it is too long for resonance. The open-circuit 
whip undergoes a similar change but it has a capacitive reactance when 
it is too short for resonance and an inductive reactance when it is too 
long for resonance.. 
 
One contributor to this folded monopole thread said he found a coil 
shunted across the feedpoint of an Andrew Corporation folded monopole. 
On page 26-12 of my 19th edition of the "ARRL Antenna Book" is described 
a matching technique using such a coil. It`s called the "helical 
hairpin" (with tongue in cheek). This method seems convenient, in 
conjunction with length adjustment of the folded monopole, to get a 50 + 
j0 impedance at the specified operating frequency. I am not privy to 
Andrew`s actual practice as we just placed the orders and the antennas 
worked as advertised. 
 
Figure 17 on page 6-9 of my 19th edition of the "ARRL Antenna Book" is 
very similar in appearance to the Andrew Corporation folded monopole. 
There is a lot of good information in the Antenna Book on folded 
antennas, and more. 
 
Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI 
 
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
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