Topband: 160 meter dipole polarity

[Tom Rauch]

Hi Jason

> house?  It seems like it would be best to have the leg that is
> electrically connected to the center conductor of the balun over the
> yard and not the house.

If you have a proper-working balun, it makes no difference. As Tree said
voltages and currents are equal or nearly equal in both halves of the
antenna.

If you don't have a balun and happen to have a bad combination of feedline
shield electrical length, there can be quite a bit of difference. Which side
should be where would be random luck.

Since the dipole is low, and electrically very close to other objects,
length is also a matter of what happens to be around the antenna and how it
is installed, so you would just have to experiment from the theoretical
length of about 468/F...especially if you have no balun.

73 Tom