[Antennas] Question reg. multiband dipole - balun

[Chris BONDE]

I was told to put a short length of coax from the tunner to the balun, then 
attach the 450o window (100ft) to my loaded droopy dipole.  It works well 
on some and works on all.  You appear to be suggesting that it doesnot 
work.  Or are you saying that it would work better if I figure out how to 
hook the 450 window line directly to the Ameritron ATR-15 tuner.

Chrisi opr VE7HCB


At 04:26 AM 2002-02-21 +0200, Deon Erwin wrote:

>The golden rule is that one cannot tune a non-resonant antenna with an
>antenna tuner via any length of unbalanced feedline.
>
>In other words, you cannot tune your dipole as a multiband antenna if any
>part of the feedline is coax.  Your dipole must have a balanced feedline all
>the way from the tuner to the dipole.
>Regards
>Deon ZR1DQ