Topband: Traditional or off-center fed 160m vertical design?

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Not having a balanced "T" top section defeats the whole purpose of 
reducing the radiation from the top horizontal wire.  IMHO the more you 
can reduce wasted radiation of the cloud warmer effect the better your 
antenna will perform for DX.



Herb, KV4FZ


On 11/6/2016 3:16 PM, Robert Fanfant wrote:
> Based on the modeling I’m leaning towards the off center fed design primarily because It has a lower SWR at resonance (1.83Mhz) than the traditional vertical, and removes the need for building/adding a matching network  if I only want to cover the lower portion of the band (CW). Thoughts?