[Elecraft] OT: K3 and antenna questions - variant

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Dragging this slightly away from the topic - I've seen this said  
before, so would like some explanation please.

I plan on using a doublet of non-determined resonance with my K3  
portable. the arms are 18.3m and fedd with ~ 12m of 300 ohm ribbon (TV  
type), supported by a 10m telescopic carbon fibre pole. Arms in an  
inverted-V config.

When I used this for the first time with the K3 via a BL2 the other  
week, untuned SWR was rather poor - > 20:1, but KAT3 tuned it ok.

I'd be interested to know what people think/do with this when do using  
a balan - presumably you just connect one side to the center of a  
PL259 and the other to the shell?
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174

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On 2 Jul 2008, at 18:01, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> And a balun is completely unnecessary in most cases.