Owen Duffy wrote:
According to my ARRL Antenna Handbook, the Windom Antenna was described
by Loren Windom in QST in 1929.

The design is a horizontal half wave (ie single band) fed by a vertical
single wire feedline attached just off centre (~14%). Explanations go
that this approximately matches the feedline Zo (which is quite high)
with the horizontal wire. It is single wire (ie ultimately unbalanced)
feedline and therefore radiates. The Antenna is fed between the source
end of the feedline and ground, and the load impedance should be
somewhere in the many hundreds of ohms. The feedline carries an
appreciable net current.

More recently, the Off Centre Fed (OCF) Dipole design emerged,
...

EXCELLENT page on OCF construction:

http://www.radioelectronicschool.net.../ocfdipole.pdf

Will take a bit to load up in adobe reader (is a BIG file) on slow 56K
dialup connection.

JS
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