You will, however, make your coax "hot" (or "hotter)
making the use of a choke/balun even more important.
The ARRL Antenna Book has some words to say about "Off
Center Fed" dipoles.
Mike N2MG
On Wed, 14 November 2001, Pete Smith wrote:
> For most of my ham career I thought that a dipole had to be symmetrical --
> which will tell you how technically competent I am. Then I read about the
> good results that W2UP and others had adding length to just one side. I
> was curious about the quantitative side of this, so I modeled a
> symmetrical, resonant dipole in free space at 3.5 MHz (actually 3520), then
> removed wire from one end to move the resonance all the way to 4.0 MHz.
>
> feedpoint at 3.520 MHz -- 71.9 +j .1 (66.75 feet of wire either side of
> center)
> feedpoint at 4.0 MHz -- 72.8 +j 3.6 (51 feet on one side, 66.75 on the other)
>
> QED
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> www.qsl.net/n4zr
________________________________________________
PeoplePC: It's for people. And it's just smart.
http://www.peoplepc.com
List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower systems,
Trylon Titan towers, coax, hardline and more. Also check out our self
supporting towers up to 100 feet for under $1500!! http://www.anwireless.com
-----
FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk
Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com
Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contesting.com
Problems: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
|