Owen Duffy wrote:
"Rick (W-A-one-R-K-T)" wrote in
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Good afternoon, Richard and Dave.

Thanks for the good information. I guess I will try as Dave suggests

and

try some different configurations and see which one works best.

Probably

the one I'll try first is the Carolina Windom, for which the radiating
feedline (the 22 ft. from the balun to the unun) is one of the design
objectives.


Or a marketing solution for what many might consider an unavoidable
problem. Problem becomes feature, problem solved, product hype enhanced,
everone wins!

Not really sure about the significance of the 22 ft section

between balun and unun ... it's not a quarter wavelength at anything of
interest... but I'll try it and see.


It is another proprietary antenna with secret components that prevent
reliable independent exploration of the design.

It's probably because they got a good deal on some premade 25 foot
cables which were inadvertently too short, or the first one built
happened to be 22 feet off the ground, or something like that. Maybe
they had a source for 22 foot scraps?

I doubt there's anything special about the 22 ft. As many have pointed
out, it's a deliberately unbalanced antenna which radiates from both
vertical and horizontal parts (and influenced by the towers, trees, and
buildings nearby), with a nice choke at some point to keep RF from
coming back in the shack on the outside of the coax.



I am not saying it doesn't 'work' (whatever that term means), just that
it isn't capable of independent explanation.

Owen