[Antennas] windom coaxial connection

[David W Sher]

FYI:  I was just over to Home Depot in Niles, IL.  They carry 500' rolls
of #18 bare copper for about $21.50.  Unfortunately, they were out of
stock of full rolls, but would sell me shorter lengths at $0.11/ft.  Went
over to Menard's, bought a 100' roll of vinyl covered #18 for $4.82
(incl. tax)

Dave             W9LYA
What wrought doG hath?

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:42:10 -0800 Harvey&Bessie <w4tg at bellsouth.net>
writes:
> The original Windom antenna was a half-wavelength wire with a 
> single-wire feeder tapped 12 
> to 14 % off the center. Then somebody came up with a half-wave 
> antenna fed with two wire 
> feeder (open-wire) tapped that same distance off center and called 
> it a California Windom. 
>   I suppose you could use co-ax at that feed point. The coiled coax 
> acts as a balun to 
> prevent rf current from running down the outside the outer conductor 
> of the coax.  You 
> probably paid too much for 66 feet of wire?
> Harvey/W4TG
> 
> 
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