[Antennas] Re: Dipole Question

[Bob Wilder]

  I agree with everyone on this regardless of the math.  Just want to
say that I use an antenna at 20 feet off the ground with the flattop
made of 450 ohm ladder line fed in the center.  The ends are twisted
together and only one wire it connected to the 25 Ft of 450 ohm ladderline
feedline.  The other wire is left free.  The feedline terminates in
a 4:1 balun which is connected to coax into the shack.  All the previous
comments kind of say it will not work (84 fet overall length) but worked
WAS on 20, 40 and 80 plus 178 countries with a bare foot TS-520S.  The
40 meter WAS was done in 30 days.  All SSB.

Bob Wilder, AF2HD/AFA2HD
6032 Idlemoore Court
Theodore, AL 36582-4117
251-653-5274
http://home.earthlink.net/~bwild
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