Siegfried Jackstien wrote: > hi folks > > just a question: > end fed halfwave with radials??? > impedance 50 ohms??????? > > an endfed halfwave has a builtin stepuptransformer or something similar > so impedance on the connector is probably 50ohm BUT ... no radials needed > it is an end fed vertikal (dipole) IF it is a halfwave > > best 73´s de dg9bfc > sigi >
Nope-an endfed half-wave still needs some sort of counter-poise. Ground-plane radials is the easiest way to get that.
