[Antennas] Half-Square Antenna - The Saga Continues

[Ron Evans]

Greetings Wire-Hangers,

Well, I've received many helpful comments to my original question 
concerning the "correct" connection of coaxial feedline to the 
half-square antenna.  You may remember that I asked if the center 
conductor was to be connected to one of the "verticals" or to the 
horizontal (flat top) portion of the antenna.  (This assumes corner feed 
as opposed to end feed and assumes NO tuning unit.)

Just as in two of the commercial antennas - where one "vendor" connects 
the center conductor to the vertical portion and the other vendor 
connects the center conductor to the horizontal portion -- the answers I 
received were also divided at this point.

If this antenna is to be understood as a form of two phased verticals, 
would one not expect the center conductor to be connected to one of the 
verticals and the braid connected to the flat top "phasing line"?

Or does it make any difference at all?

Thanks for any light you may shed on my darkness.  :-)

72/73,

Ron - KD5S


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   KD5S  (ex K5MVR) - Loving the "glow"  since 1957
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