On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:51:41 -0700, Rick Dettinger <k7m...@gmail.com> wrote:
What you are describing is a half wave end fed wire which has the other side of the circuit attached to ground. For an antenna to be a dipole it must be two individual wires each fed independently by a balanced or unbalanced feed line. Each of the two wires may be as of different length. >It is an antenna and a good one, but it is not half of a dipole, it is >a whole dipole. It does not matter where a dipole is fed, it is still >a half wave long. > >73, > >Rick Detinger K7MW [snip] BT 73 ES GUD LUK DE N5GE, QCWA LIFE MEMBER 35102 AR SK n...@n5ge.com http://www.n5ge.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
