John S wrote:
Suppose I have a dipole where the two quarter-wave elements are not
exactly aligned. That is, the axis of, say, the left element is
displaced by some amount from the axis of the right element.

Then, what about feeding them from a balanced line?

The questions a

* How will the antenna impedance and current distribution suffer, if at all?

* What feed system is required? 90 degrees to the axis is preferable,
but that means that the twin lead has one side longer than the other.

Is this interesting? Or, has it been discussed before? What was the
outcome, if any?

Thanks, Guys.

I modeled this in free space starting with the elements offset by 0.01
lambda in the Z axis and the length adjusted for resonance.

I then stepped the offset up to 0.1 lambda.

As the offset increased, the gain stayed the same to within a fraction
of a dB but the pattern rotated off the Y axis.

The only effect of resizing the elements for the 0.1 lambda section was
to bring the reactance back to zero; nothing else changed by any
significant amount

This might be usefull if one had only E/W supports and wanted to skew the
pattern from N/S.


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Jim Pennino