[Boatanchors] Antenna relay questions
Rob Atkinson
ranchorobbo at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 19:57:44 EDT 2019
> Is there a better solution?
Well, "better" is usually a matter of opinion, so you'll get plenty of
better solutions. I always advise getting rid of unbalanced tuners,
baluns and so forth, and run ladder line from the center feed point to
some sort of outer wall entrance. There are a variety of ways of
getting the balanced line through the wall, depending on what the wall
is made of, whether it has any windows which make things easier, and
so on. Somewhere outside not too far from the wall but not too close,
splice in a pair of banana plugs and jacks into the line. This is
where you disconnect the line and pull it away from the wall when away
from home or during bad wx. Just inside where the line comes in,
position a EFJ KW Matchbox, or homebrew link coupled tuner and use
that to match the line to coax. It will work on all ham bands 10
through 80 but it takes a bit of fiddling usually which to me at
least, is part of the fun of ham radio. Don't use the crummy brown
plastic "window line" in any case.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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