In article .com,
"RHF" wrote:

So I want to Rig my cut-to-order Dipole Antenna to use
for general across-the-bands Shortwave Listening.

First - Don't Think of It as a Dipole . . .

Think of it as Two Horizontal Wire Antennas that are fed
with a Pair of Matched Lines {Ladder Line - Twin Lead - etc}


You have three paragraphs that appear to cover three different issues
with no attribution so I don't know how to respond to this post.

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Telamon
Ventura, California