[Elecraft] Twinlead feedline to my K1

Fri Jul 19 14:19:00 2002

Lloyd,
In the spirit of kit building and home brew, you might check out the 
high-performance balun kit offered by NJQRP....

        http://www.njqrp.org/balun/index.html

The balun (short for "balance to unbalanced" where twin-lead, and 
ladder-line are inheritantly balanced, while coax is unbalanced) will 
match the unbalanced currents out of the K1 tuner, to the balanced load of 
the twin-lead fed dipole.

There are those that argue a balun is unnecessary, and that an 
antenna/feed line/tuner system will work well without it.  I would try 
just connecting one lead to the red post and one to the black post of your 
K1 and see if it tunes up!  You may be pleasantly surprised.

73,
Steve
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Lloyd Lachow <[email protected]>
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07/19/2002 09:38 AM

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        Subject:        [Elecraft] Twinlead feedline to my K1

I'm cornsiderating upon putting up a NB6Zep antenna
( http://home.teleport.com/~nb6z/nb6zep.htm ), and I'm
not sure how to connect the twinlead to my K1, which
has an internal autotuner. Now, I'm using a longwire
to the red post of my BNC-to-binding post, with two
1/4 wave on 20M counterpoisii on the black post.
All help appreciated.

73/72/oo,

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