[Elecraft] Balun with a G5RV?

[Ron D' Eau Claire]

> When I first got my license a lot of hams were using TV 300 ohm twin lead
> for feed line, and for folded dipole antennas.  When it rained,
> the loss in
> the 300 ohm twin lead went up.  One trick we learned was to coat the twin
> lead with bacon grease.  Not that I would recommend it today, but
> it helped.

> 73, Chas, W1CG

Har! I can imagine what the raccoons, and other critters around here (on the
edge of a wetlands) would do with that bacon grease, Hi!

Actually, a folded dipole made up of 300 ohm twin lead and fed with the same
twinlead was one of the BEST ways to use that stuff, since it should have
presented an impedance of close to 300 ohms to the feeder so it did not
produce a real high SWR on the line.

I did that in my early days too, and experienced the same detuning issues
though - a sure sign I wasn't very close to resonance. But then I didn't
even hear about an SWR bridge (nor did anyone I knew have one) for almost
another 10 years <G>

Ron AC7AC
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