On 6 sep, 14:30, John Smith wrote:
On 9/6/2010 5:08 AM, Cecil Moore wrote:

...
The one I remember was about the Carolina Windom 4:1 voltage balun at
the feedpoint and the 1:1 choke-isolator 20' down the coax. The
original Windom was fed, Marconi style, against ground.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

I have a "weird thing" about windoms ... I just don't trust an antenna
which "manipulates" RF on the feedline in "beneficial" ways and has a
religious cult following ... insane quirk of mine, really. lol *Now I
don't have the room ... moved again.

If the wife had her way, we would move to Montana next to a favorite
sister and brother ... there we would have the room! lol

Regards,
JS

Hello John,

When the feed line goes to a clean environment (for example a ground
provision far from the shack feed line radiation may not be a problem,
but it isn't my favorite. When the feed line goes directly to the
shack (and equipment), I don't want such an antenna.

When you are working NVIS on 75/80m, you don't want the vertical
component as this leads to radiation under low elevation, hence
stronger reception of ground based interference.

In case of DX, the vertical component may help you as this may result
in lower elevation of main lobe; over here we have much soil with
better then average conductivity. If I would like vertical
polarization, I prefer 100% of that, so no windom or OCF dipoles for
me.

Depending on the design, allowing vertically polarized radiation may
result in worse or better VSWR.

Regarding the color, many straight people wear it over here
(especially in summer days), so you can't judge on color only....

Regarding the balun/transformer, you need a very good one with OCF
dipoles as common mode voltage at feed point can be in the 300V range
with 100W input. just some pF stray capacitance in a transformer will
provoke feed line radiation.

Best regards,

Wim
PA3DJS
www.tetech.nl
without abc in the address, PM will reach me.