On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:00:14PM -0800, Simon Van Leeuwen wrote:
> and most definitely will not reduce immunity to
> extraneous noise as someone has suggested. If there is a gain in
> efficiency, it is across the board.
I take it that you have never compared a *balanced* dipole with
a vertical then ? Simply switching between the two on receive is
quite revealing. Try it and then decide if the dipole can indeed
reduce noise.
Remembering of course that the dipole needs to be fed with a
suitable balanced feeder. If using coax as a feeder then you
must use a balun at the feed point to overcome the problem of
using coax, which is an *unbalanced* line.
Right I am quitting before we have to change the title of the
list from soaring to .....
Reg G4NFR
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