On Sep 30, 4:37*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:
JIMMIE wrote :

...

The evaluation of this antenna should start with connecting a choke
type BALUN at the input to isolate feedline radiation. A few feet of

Then it is not the same antenna as described.

I agree with your implication that an antenna of this type warrants an
attempt to minimise common mode current on the feedline... but that is
not a part of the design as described.

Any additional feedline is also not part of the antenna as described
but I am sure this attributes to many of the glowing reports that
seems to
refute antenna NEC analysis.

Jimmie