Tom Ring wrote:
Well, I'm not going to argue with someone who thinks that placing a
balun between an unbalanced feed and a balanced load could ever possibly
do more harm than good.
That's because you are calling it a dipole and assuming it is a balanced
antenna. In reality, it's a quarter wave sideways vertical wire antenna, with
a single quarter wave radial at the feed point.
See, now it all makes sense. :-)
Or a quarter wave end fed horizontal antenna with a single tuned feed
point radial.
Not only that, I wonder if I can patent them, and sell them via a web site
for big bucks.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel
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