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BARS,</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">The
Sat AM Zoom meeting today got into a discussion about Off-Center-Fed
Dipoles (OCFDs).  This topic raised my
interest in discussing or presenting topics such as:</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Transmission
Line Transformers </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Balun/Unun
Construction </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Modeling
Dipoles and Off-Center-Fed Dipoles with 4nec2 or EZNEC</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Off-Center-Fed
Dipole Variations  </font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Feeding
Off-Center-Fed Dipoles</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">LTspice,
a graphical SPICE tool from Linear Technology and Analog Devices</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Both 4nec2 and LTspice are free.</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">I
do not proclaim to be an expert on these topics, but over time, I
have gained some worthwhile experience with them.</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">What
follows here are my comments about one kind of feed point mechanism for a particular OCFD.  I then discuss some other feed point mechanisms
for some other configurations of the OCFD.</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Read
on if you wish.  Feel free to pass along
your comments to me about either this prelude or the discussion in the attached
file.</font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">73’s,</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">Steve
Schultz</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">AC1EX</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4">BARS,
Philips ARC, and MGEF</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 4pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="4"><a href="mailto:steven.m.schultz@ieee.org">steven.m.schultz@ieee.org</a></font></span></p>

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