Hi Stuart,
Thanks for the interesting theory on the Windom.
... Kip, WB3AFL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
To: <bstephens1@mindspring.com>; <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [TenTec] 60M antennas
> Any Windom class antenna is only going to have radiation off the feedline
> approximating a low vertical at best. If the feedline is only quarter wave
> that is. If the feedline before the isolator is very long, then the windom
> can be looked upon as a feedline radiator loaded by a half wave off center
> fed dipole element. The half wave would look like a termination on the
> extended feeder length, and inherently, according to the British Antenna
> authority Les Moxon, that case would incur a 6 dB loss to the power
> available for radiation. His book on antennas that states that is the one
> sold by ARRL and RSGB.
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