[Elecraft] Balanced solution for KAT500 tuner?

[Don Wilhelm]

Phil,

It is great that you actually know the length of your feedline - most do 
not.

I am not questioning how well your antenna/feedline combination works.
All I am trying to get across is that for any claims about how easy a 
particular antenna is to tune (with a tuner in the shack), the length of 
feedline is a critical parameter.

Yes, I know that most hams do not measure their feedline - it is long 
enough to reach from the shack to the antenna.  That means the 
experience you have with that antenna/feedline combination may not be 
the same as the results obtained by anyone else.

Bottom line, measure your feedline, particularly if the antenna is not 
matched to the feedline characteristic impedance.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/30/2012 12:46 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:
> Don,
>
> Actually, my antenna works quite well and so far is the best performing wire antenna I have raised
> up for 80/40/30.  My previous delta loop was pretty good for 80/30 but it was a bit too narrow due to limited
> space and the and 40 just did not perform as well as I had hoped.
>
> My 450 ohm ladder line is 96 feet long.  It does not have to be that long but I chose a feed point
> further from the shack.  The closest possible feed point was too short and only about 30 feet.
> My coax is roughly 30 feet.  I have not actually measured it but the length that is outside the
> shack is 25 feet and I have a four foot piece on the inside of the shack to my current tuner
> which is a Palstar AT1KM.
>