"Charles Schuler" wrote in
:




No, I mean ELECTRICALLY balanced. And with the feedline at right
angles to the antenna so that it doesn't pick up anything by
induction. It's a tricky thing to do, yet back in the old days hams
used to feed dipoles or extended double zepp antennas with open wire
line and not get much RF in the shack. I know mine didn't.

Ran a Windom in Texas in 1965 (WA5KBO) with only 150W and burned a
hole in my lip (no joke) with the RF on the metal ring around the
microphone! The Windom was a good performer, but I could not
effectively ground the rig. I was in student housing (College
Station) and was not allowed antennas but improvised!

A true windom with a single wire feed, or one of the latter-day kind with
twinlead?


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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667