[TenTec] The problem with directly end fed wires

["Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>]

Besides needing a tuner to handle the very high impedance of the longer end
fed wire; as it does get to multiples of 1/2 waves, you have more and more
of the response coming from ONLY the direction of the far end of the wire.
If you want an omnidirectional antenna, this is NOT it.

The poorest antenna from number of contacts it generated was my 400 foot
long wire pointed in the wrong direction, and besides it had lots of RF in
the shack problems!
-Stuart
K5KVH


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