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balance antenna

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can you tell me if the CP, Dipole and ground plane antennas are balance or unbalance ? do they need a balun ?
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Dipole is balanced, GP is unbalanced.

Unbalanced is usually when antenna is not "symetrical".
Look at the dipole, it is perfectly symetrical, right?
GP is not.
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