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It's what I had read, so I took it for granted that was the way of it.
What I figured I'd use when I first thought to try an EDZ was the matching network I'd used with the 1/2 wave end fed verticals. The figures I'd read for the impedance at the feedpoint seemed to point to that network as a possibility - 1800 Ohms more or less.

I don't know the proof of it, but it matters little as I decided to make the ladder line instead. It was a matter of sticking the spacers in between the first several inches of my wires. Given time I may try the other matcher. I know little about this antenna, but it seems the consensus is a ladder line is necessary to convert it to usable impedance with the coax, yet . . .
I'll have to put the analyzer right at the end of the ladder line to be sure of where the antenna is, and to determine whether the 4:1 balun should be there or not.

Where it is mounted it's a bit noisy, and very directional - more so than the common dipole.

<blockquote data-quote="HomerBB" data-source="post: 435068" data-attributes="member: 8569">It&#039;s what I had read, so I took it for granted that was the way of it. What I figured I&#039;d use&nbsp; when I first thought to try an EDZ was the matching network I&#039;d used with the 1/2 wave end fed verticals. The figures I&#039;d read for the impedance at the feedpoint seemed to point to that network&nbsp; as a possibility - 1800 Ohms more or less.I don&#039;t know the proof of it, but it matters little as I decided to make the ladder line instead. It was a matter of sticking the spacers in between the first several inches of my wires. Given time I may try the other matcher. I know little about this antenna, but it seems the consensus is a ladder line is necessary to convert it to usable impedance with the coax, yet . . . I&#039;ll have to put the analyzer right at the end of the ladder line to be sure of where the antenna is, and to determine whether the 4:1 balun should be there or not.Where it is mounted it&#039;s a bit noisy, and very directional - more so than the common dipole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HomerBB, post: 435068, member: 8569"] It's what I had read, so I took it for granted that was the way of it. What I figured I'd use when I first thought to try an EDZ was the matching network I'd used with the 1/2 wave end fed verticals. The figures I'd read for the impedance at the feedpoint seemed to point to that network as a possibility - 1800 Ohms more or less. I don't know the proof of it, but it matters little as I decided to make the ladder line instead. It was a matter of sticking the spacers in between the first several inches of my wires. Given time I may try the other matcher. I know little about this antenna, but it seems the consensus is a ladder line is necessary to convert it to usable impedance with the coax, yet . . . I'll have to put the analyzer right at the end of the ladder line to be sure of where the antenna is, and to determine whether the 4:1 balun [I]should[/I] be there or not. Where it is mounted it's a bit noisy, and very directional - more so than the common dipole. [/QUOTE]

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