[Elecraft] OCF antennas and baluns??

[Phil Wheeler]

My antenna was 135 ft long on a 40x50 lot -- very gerrymandered -- and 
10-15 ft high.  Radiation from the feed wire may have been the best I 
had ;-)

No matter: Worked well on 80-40-20 CW.

73, Phil

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

>Of course, even if the Windom feed WAS correctly set for no standing waves,
>it was good on only ONE frequency! On any other frequency the wire radiated
>- usually quite a lot. 
>
>Pretty soon no one cared much about finding the "magic spot" and simply
>guesstimated the position of the wire at some percentage of the length from
>the center of the dipole and accepted the feeder radiation as part of the
>deal.
>
>Ron AC7AC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Remember the true old Windom design was a single wire feed, and thus surely
>radiated from both the wire feeder and the flat top.   He was attempting to
>find a tap setting on the flat top that would more easily load on multibands
>with the old transmitters of his day.
>
>Stuart
>K5KVH
>
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