[TenTec] 60M antennas

[Kip Glunt]

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for the interesting theory on the Windom.

... Kip, WB3AFL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre at arlut.utexas.edu>
To: <bstephens1 at mindspring.com>; <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [TenTec] 60M antennas


> Any Windom class antenna is only going to have radiation off the feedline
> approximating a low vertical at best.  If the feedline is only quarter wave
> that is.  If the feedline before the isolator is very long, then the windom
> can be looked upon as a feedline radiator loaded by a half wave off center
> fed dipole element.  The half wave would look like a termination on the
> extended feeder length, and inherently, according to the British Antenna
> authority Les Moxon, that case would incur a 6 dB loss to the power
> available for radiation.  His book on antennas that states that is the one
> sold by ARRL and RSGB.
..........