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Old September 10th 05, 02:00 AM
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Steve Nosko wrote:

The original Windom *was* an intentionally off center fed multi-band
antenna. Anybody have info on the Windom from the 40's 40's. Dad used
one, but I don't know what he did.


Steve K,9'D;C.I


YEP!!

134 feet long.

Fed 46 feet from one end with a SINGLE WIRE [NO COAX, NO TWIN LEAD, NO
BALUN, etc.]. Very good tuning system required. Allegedly something
close to 600 ohms at feedpoint. More wishful thinking than reality. [In
those days people were not obsessed with VSWR = 1.000001 to 1. ]

Some feed lengths produced a 'hot' key or mike. Changed length of
feedline to get rf out of shack. X

80, 40, 20, 10 meters.

All current model 'Windoms' are true fakes !!!