[ARC5] Tuning up BC-230 and ARC-5

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 31 Mar 2016 at 17:19, AKLDGUY . wrote:

> The more I deal with coax, the more I hate it.

Join the club... i.e., me too.

> I'm trying to get
> back to balanced feed like the hams of the 30s used.

And like I used in the '50s through '70s.

> Balanced feed = less likelihood of radiation off the feedline
> and less pickup of locally generated noise.

Indeed.

Best antenna I ever used was an open-wire-line fed inverted vee.

My "new" antenna will be an open-wire-line fed vee-beam, "swung" 90 degrees so it is 
vertical with the end of one leg in the top of a 110 foot tall tree, and the end of the other leg 
near the ground under the tree. Legs are 132 feet long.

I'll be using 600 ohm "ladder-line". My balanced coupler is one I built back in the 1960s from 
parts taken from a Wilcox 96 transmitter.

I can hardly wait. It will be the best antenna I have been able to use in over 30 years...

Ken W7EKB