Topband: A little assistance needed with an attempt at a T antenna

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri Jan 4 12:32:54 EST 2013


On 1/4/2013 5:56 AM, Mike Armstrong wrote:
> After all the preliminaries, I want to try the T, but it definitely struck me that the antenna, being OCFD as much as it is, is definitely NOT balanced side to side.

By all means do it as a Tee, and don't worry about the imbalance. There 
is, however, a more important issue.  Most OCF antennas use a choke or 
balun in the feedline that is likely to fry if you load the antenna this 
way.

73, Jim K9YC




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