[Icom] AH-4 with Coax

Cletus W Whitaker [email protected]
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:10:38 -0500


de WB2CPN           2002.03.15

I have a 4-inch coax and a 1:1 balun on my AH-2 and AH-4's.  They feed 50 feet of
ladder line and a center fed antenna.  An electrically short piece of coax will
look to the AH-4 like added capacity to ground on the output.  A properly terminated
coax longer than a quarter wave will let the AH-4 see the line impedance.
So, coax on the AH-4?  Sometimes...73