[TowerTalk] Fwd: current balance in ladder line?

[Steve Hunt]

The problem is, I don't know how to get power to a dipole without using 
a feedline ;)
So the potential for imbalance is always there in a practical system.

Steve G3TXQ

On 19/01/2011 20:09, jimlux wrote:
> Exactly.. because the feedline is part of the antenna, now.  If it's
> asymmetric with respect to the antenna, it will have currents induced in
> it (whether common mode in the case of a balanced open wire line or on
> the outside of coax).
>