Oh, yeah. It will. If you are unlucky and it is presenting a current node at the antenna connection. All the MORE likely if you have a really good ground at the house entry point. Get used to it. Each little wire running off from the center is a **DRIVEN** element in the system, and if the coax shield is not blocked, the coax shield is an element DRIVEN with power from the base of the antenna.
It can be that low, it's insulated, it has a very large surface, and because there are miscellaneous distributed and specific terminations at the other end, you CAN very definitely have current nodes if it's driven with power at the antenna end. That is where you can get VERY low effective series resistances. Maybe you particularly will, maybe you won't, with your SPECIFIC piece of coax and routing, grounding, yada, yada. But the warning of the 50/50 possibility has to remain. I'm really quite sure some of you out there ARE lucky in this very miscellaneous regard. Carry on. Enjoy life. Kiss a pretty woman. Work rare DX. As for the REST of you..... The trick is to remember that without a block you are driving that shield with counterpoise power, the same as each one of the radials individually. 73, Guy. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Roy <royan...@ncn.net> wrote: > This is the part I'm objecting to: > > "the coax will carry HALF > the counterpoise current and waste most of that power, besides being a > link...(etc.)" > > No, no, nertz. Where did that notion originate? > > Roy K6XK > > > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK