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Old February 16th 10, 01:30 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default OCF: Proprer type of balun (transformer)

On 15 fév, 19:22, Roy Lewallen wrote:

Sometimes the radiation from the feedline, mains wiring, and stuff in
the shack can be beneficial -- it might, for instance, fill in deep
nulls in the main antenna's pattern and result in a spectacular signal
strength improvement in particular directions.


I am slightly OT here, but the same argumentation could be used about
non-resonant antennas like the G5RV. Yes, ATU needed, but L-type
autotuners for example have very small insertion loss.

I am wondering about the real advantage of a razor cut dipole
(resonant anyway on a small region around a freq) versus a multi-band
dipole using a length of feed line matching section like the G5RV or
ZS6BKW/G0GSF Antenna System...

73 de Pierre VE2PID