On 8/4/2015 11:31 AM, rickman wrote:
On 8/4/2015 11:39 AM, John S wrote:
The balun thread has become long (138 posts). I propose that we not
discuss baluns, but concentrate on antenna balance and coax attachment.

Starting from the simplest of all situations, assume a dipole with an RF
generator in the middle. If we can't agree that this is a balanced
system, then we have nothing left to discuss.

Connect an additional wire to one side of the source so that you have
one wire on one side and two wires on the other side. Is it still
balanced?

Is *what* still balanced? The antenna hasn't changed and is still
balanced.

Well, the starting point is this:

----------0-----------

Where the 0 is the generator.

Then we attach a wire like so:

----------0.----------
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I don't understand how the antenna has not changed.

The generator hasn't changed and is still balanced.

I do not understand how a two-terminal generator can be described as
either balanced or unbalanced.

But you
have added a wire which will load the generator and serve as an element
of the antenna changing the radiation pattern. How significantly the
pattern will change depends on the orientation of the wire and what it
connects to, if anything. There is also the issue of how much energy is
transmitted along the wire to whatever is connected to it.


Please disregard the radiation pattern in this thread.