Lucky wrote:

On thing I should make clear is that this twinlead is NOT center fed at all.
I'm using the lead just like a long wire except the ends of the twinL are
separate and not connected and it's hooked up to a balun in the room, not
outside. Only coax from balun to beautiful radio.

Lucky

What you have is a twinlead feed line to nowhere. You need some kind of
wiring on the far end of the twinlead to have a real antenna. If you
connected a wire to each of the wires in the end of the twinlead and
extended those wires in opposite directions, you would have a
traditional dipole. However 300-ohm twinlead should be connected to a
folded dipole antenna for a proper impedance match. A simple two wire
dipole {not folded} matches to 50-ohm coax lead better than a 300-ohm
twinlead. In that case you don't need the twinlead at all.


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