[Antennas] thoughts and comments needed

[Dan Richardson]

At 05:56 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote:

>Seems several people mentioned maybe the problem was the balun I'm 
>using.  After carefully reviewing things, I kind of think it it, too.
>
>In the next few days I'm going to take the choke balun out and put a coax 
>balun up there.  The instructions show a coil of 10 6" turns of coax taped 
>together where the coax meets the ladderline.
>
>I think the antenna is reactive enough that the ferrite choke balun I was 
>using may have saturated (probably was heating up, too) and was stopping rf.
>
>Thanks for the thoughts and comments.

You would be far better off running your ladder line all the way to the 
tuner and forget about the coax altogether. indeed, G6RV himself 
recommended that for multi-band operation.

Danny, K6MHE






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