[Antennas] Re: Balanced Line Tuners [was: 4:1 or 1:4?]

[Doc]

Have you chatted with L.B. Cebik, W4RNL, about this?
http://www.cebik.com/  I really trust his perspective more 
than most. http://www.cebik.com/link.html and he seems 
to think that what you built was a good idea. 

73, Doc  KD4E 

> As Todd pointed out the article can be found at: 
> http://www.vcnet.com/measures/bbat.html
> 
> The up shot is while the deferential mode impedance is address by this 
> arrangement it does nothing to relieve the stress on the balun caused by 
> common mode current.
> 
> So the bottom line was I pretty much wasted my time building the thing.
> 
> Danny
> 
> At 05:01 PM 1/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Why is tuning both sides of a balanced line feed with independent
> >variable inductor and capacitor circuits incorrect?
> >73, Doc  KD4E