As Ken Brown says, the names get corn fused and mis-applied such that
they take on new connotations all the time.
A "Windom" was originally a single wire, feed off center with a single
wire vertical feed line, and fed against an "earth ground", such as a
ground rod-counterpoise-ground plane or the like. The original Windom
offset was about 14%.
See ARRL Antenna Book 22 Ed, Section 10.1.6, Page 10-7, See
particularly Figure 10.11 on Page 10-7.
The ARRL Antenna Book says: " … the true single-feed-wire Windom
antenna is rarely used although the name is often given to wires with
non--centered feed point…" P. 10-7
As Rick suggests, the term "Windom" is applied to pretty much any
off-center fed wire antenna. He once assured me hams on the "Windom"
antenna reflector do this, and convinced me it would be impossible to
reverse the trend and right the course at this late date! AND I
believe him. ;-)
---------------------- K8JHR -----------------------------
On 9/14/2014 6:44 PM, k6jek wrote:
I was missing some of the history.
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