[TowerTalk] Beam feeding

[Tom Osborne]

Hi All

In a old issue of CQ there was an article entitled "Off center
feeding of yagi antennas."
Instead of feeding the antenna at the center of the driven
element, it was fed part way out on the element.  The reasoning
was that in a 3 element beam, the impedance at the center could
be around 15 ohms or so and at the end, 1000 ohms or so.  That
being the case, the feedline could be moved out to the 50 ohm
position.  Has anyone ever tried that, and other than mechanical
problems, would it work ok?  73
Tom W7WHY

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