Topband: "New beverage"

[Tom W8JI]

> Go to http://exax.net/index.html and scroll down the page to "center fed
> steerable wave antenna".  The diagram shows how you can feed a 2-wire
> Beverage in the center, or anywhere along its length.  The two 
> transformers
> in the middle have center taps that pass signal currents from one side of
> the antenna to the other side.  Therefore the entire length of the 
> Beverage
> is active at all times.

Except with coax, you would not connect across the center tap point. There 
would be a direct connection across the shields, since the center has no 
common mode (antenna mode) currents at all.

With a true balanced line, the common mode (antenna mode) connection is 
across a center tap.