I'm sorry if I'm seeming a little dense, but I can't get unwrapped from the
'single wire fed version' of this antenna.
Open wire output from the link has *2* wires. I can see attaching them to
some
open wire line, and feeding this Wyndom antenna at 1.8125, and having the
antenna resonant on 3.6250, 7.250, 14.5 (oops - can't operate there) and
29Mc,
but I simply fail to understand how one wire is going to feed an antenna
thas
has two posts to connect to.
If the wire is clipped to the halfwave flat-top at the proper point, and the
flat-top is resonant at the operating frequency, the SWR along the feed
wire will be 1:1 and if I recall correctly, the feedpoint impedance will be
close to 300 ohms. Yes, the feed wire will radiate some, since there is no
opposing wire to cancel the radiation, but the majority of the radiation
will be from the flat-top. The other rf feed terminal is ground.
Another example of one wire feeding a halfwave antenna is the end-fed zepp.
One major difference is that the "dead" feeder physically parallel to the
one actually connected to the antenna cancels most (but not all) of the
feedline radiation.
Single-wire Windom feed is ideal for use with a pi-network, but of course
the transmitter will need to be connected to a good rf ground.
Don K4KYV
