[Elecraft] 43 ft Vertical

[Radio Amateur N5GE]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:51:41 -0700, Rick Dettinger <k7mw78 at gmail.com>
wrote:

What you are describing is a half wave end fed wire which has the
other side of the circuit attached to ground.  

For an antenna to be a dipole it must be two individual wires each fed
independently by a balanced or unbalanced feed line.  Each of the two
wires may be as of different length.

>It is an antenna and a good one, but it is not half of a dipole, it is  
>a whole dipole.  It does not matter where a dipole is fed, it is still  
>a half wave long.
>
>73,
>
>Rick Detinger   K7MW

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