[Elecraft] Helix-wound EDP

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Was this not the antenna that the Old - Old- Timers used to call the 'Thirty 
up thirty out', each leg being thirty feet in length?

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <rondec at easystreet.com>
To: "'Vic K2VCO'" <vic at rakefet.com>; "'Elecraft Discussion List'" 
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Helix-wound EDP


> No, it was center fed like an inverted V, so it was fed at the bottom of 
> the
> pole in his arrangement with one side of the feedline going to the pipe 
> and
> the other going to the horizontal wire. (Otherwise it wouldn't be a
> 'doublet').
>
> Yes, the arrangement would introduce some unbalance in the feeders.
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
>