[Antennas] Balanced Tuners

[K6MHE]

At 05:28 PM 5/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>See Richard Measures article which originally appeared in
>February 1990 QST on "A Balanced Balanced Antenna Tuner"
>for an example of a balanced tuner.
>The article is available on his web site at ...
>
>         http://www.vcnet.com/measures/bbat.html

I built one only to find out later that although Measures' tuner helps with 
the differential mode impedance matching it does nothing to help relieve 
the stress on the balun caused by common mode current.

As Don commented a link fed parallel-tuned circuit is the *best* way to go.

Danny, K6MHE