[TowerTalk] Dipole feed

[David Robbins]

"Assuming" that there is an adequate choke so that the currents are balanced it shouldn't matter which conductor from the coax goes to which side of the antenna... but i would hedge my bet and put the center conductor to the higher or longer or farthest from other conductors, or farthest from the shack side of the antenna.


Apr 25, 2012 08:46:40 AM, efuller6 at rochester.rr.com wrote:

At the expense of prolonging the balanced feed/balun threads, a question. With sloping, or bent vertical dipoles, should the dc grounded/shield side of the coax feed, withor without a balun. go to the lower side of the dipole? I've been feeding mine with parallel line back to a tuner in the shack, thus avoiding the problem and it's been working very well. However, to get the airborne openwire out of sight I'm thinking of converting to the burried coax that's feeding all of my other antennas. 
Gene / W2LU
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