[Antennas] loop or ?

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 20:51:12 -0400

Why 800 feet?  I suppose because it's there.  More seriously, the layout of
the lot is trees at the corners and sides so it would be relatively easy to
string the wire along there.  I could string it diagonally if I wanted a
divorce.

73,
Tom, W6WW
K2 #3453

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat W_" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Antennas] loop or ?

>
> >...then feed the whole thing at the opposite end with 450 ohm
> >open wire line... to a 4:1 balun and tuner...will tune anything then.
>
> Actually, what you would see at the tuner end depends on the length of the
> open wire line.  A 4:1 balun will make tuning worse about half the time
then
> if you used nothing(except 1:1 current balun).  see LB Cebiks dissertation
> about feedlines called:
> "12 ways to love your feeders". at www.cebik.com
>
> Why would you want to put up 800 feet of wire when only about 200 will do
??
>   Pat W0OPW
>
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