Donald Chester wrote:
> If you are talking about the "end-fed zepp" the unterminated feeder,
> sometimes called the "dead" feeder somewhat balances out the "live" feeder
> that connects to the end of the antenna. While the balance is not perfect
> and cancellation is not complete, the feedline radiation is significantly
> less than with a simple one-wire vertical feeder (which would qualify the
> antenna as an "inverted-L").
Well, the radiation may or may not be as described,
but one thing is for sure: common mode feeder current
is exactly equal to the current feeding the "antenna".
That's physics.
73,
Sinisa YT1NT, VA3TTN
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