[CQ-Contest] How to start a run

[K9MA]

Unless the feedline is radiating a lot, the type of feedline does not affect the pattern. Open wire line is used with this kind of antenna because the high SWR on some bands would make coax extremely lossy. 

73,

Scott. K9MA

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Scott Ellington

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> On Aug 22, 2016, at 9:20 PM, Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> I believe the antenna that W8TAH described is NOT a dipole because he mentioned he feeds it with open wire feeder. A center fed zepp cut for 80 meters is usually about 130-135 long and fed at the center with 450 ohm open wire line. The antenna patterns I described are on the W4RNL webpage and maybe the ARRL antenna book. I would imagine that if this antenna was fed with some type of 50 Ohm coax the pattern would be different.
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