[QCWA] Baluns Part 8 (Mark McGilvray)

[N5GE]

I just finished installing a loop with 254 feet of wire with a stub of 450 ohm
ladder line in the NE corner and fed with 30 feet of 450 ohm ladder line at the
SW corner that connects to a 4:1 balun and about ten feet of Belden 8267
connected to my Palstar AT5K tuner.

This is a MARS NAVMARCORMARS antenna and is low to the ground (23ft).  It is an
NVIS antenna and tunes without problems from 160 through 6m.

Although it is designed to only TX & RX RF straight up I have been working DX on
it also.

It is all inside my property on a city lot with two twenty three foot masts made
with 3" SCH 40 PVC conduit at the back fence and two tripods with 5 foot masts
at each end of the peak of my roof.

73,
Tom
Amateur Radio Operator N5GE
ARRL Lifetime Member
QCWA Lifetime Member

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Voters can keep THEIR LAND STRONG by rotating 
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:44:37 -0500, "Mark" <k5mrk at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>I have use 300 ohm ladder line 50ft
>length into a W9INN BALUN BOX
>MODEL MFJ-912 with a 6ft RG-213
>Coax and it works great.
>
>73
>Mark/k5mrk
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