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Old May 24th 05, 05:44 PM
Richard Clark
 
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On 24 May 2005 05:02:12 -0700, "
wrote:

Probably I missed telling the list that, the coax feeds a 1:1 balun
which is connected to the dipole. The dipole is center-fed, and balun
feeds both both 20m and 40m wires of the dipole.


Hi Ramakrishnan,

If, by this description, you mean that there are four wires, two for
20M and 2 for 40M; then that is all good and well.

However, if you mean that there are two wires, one for 20M and one for
40M arranged as a dipole; then that is unbalanced and what I called an
OCF Dipole.

By your description of a slight mismatch, I will take it that you are
using four wires - a Fan Dipole. This convention is widely used and
suited to your purposes.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC