[Elecraft] steel shed and balanced feed

[Dave G4AON]

David

I have an upstairs shack with a balanced feeder needing to pass through 
a brick wall into the shack. I have a balun mounted on the outside wall 
of the shack, hole drilled in the wall to take the feeder and a metre of 
feeder to the K2. I use a 4:1 voltage balun in a plastic "project" box, 
home wound and connected to the balanced feeder with brass nuts and 
bolts. By using a 4:1 voltage balun (not ideal as a balun...) it has the 
advantage of being able to provide a DC ground for both halves of the 
doublet.

Maybe your antenna/shack configuration doesn't lend itself to this idea, 
but if it does it makes life very simple.

73 Dave, G4AON
K1 #1154, K2 #1892