[Antennas] Simple Dipole Question

Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:37:32 -0400

 Sounds to me like you'd have about a 6-1 swr between the
dipole and the ladder line, and a 9-1 swr between the
ladder line and the coax.

 Maybe you'd better buy 120 feet of RG-8X
 and drop the balun, or move it to the feedpoint.

73,  Mark  WB8JKR

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:24:43 -0500 "Kelley Shaddrick"
<[email protected]> writes:
> Today, with nothing better to do, I stuck up a dipole cut for 20m 
> (14.2 MHz)
> using 468/frequency. It's strung between two trees at about 50 feet 
> in the
> air. I fed it with ladder line (450 ohm) to the house (about 100 
> feet) to a
> 1:1 balun and some RG-8X (about 20 feet) into the 2nd floor shack. 
> The
> initial swr reading is infinite across the band, no dip anywhere, 
> not even a
> little. I suppose since I'm using ladder line, or window line, I 
> need to cut
> things different. Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kelley -- W�RK
> 
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