Posted by Bob McGraw - K4TAX on Jan 13, 2019; 10:34pm URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Slightly-Unbalanced-dipole-tp7648044p7648054.html
That's why I use the statement "xxx ft center fed wire with balanced feed". I do have the ability to measure the current in each side of the feedline. As long as it is within 5%, about the limits of accuracy of measurements, I'm happy.
Bob, K4TAX
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> On Jan 13, 2019, at 3:55 PM, Ray Albers <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> A friend once told me, "Almost none of us has a balanced dipole."
>
> What he meant is, few of us are lucky enough to be able to put a dipole
> high up and completely in the clear - most of us have to put it up where we
> can, and one side will be closer to houses, trees, gutters, chain link
> fences..... than the other.
>
> Probably true!
>
> 73
> Ray K2HYD
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