[Antennas] Balun Test

Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:58:35 -0800

Hi All,
Well, controversy aside, I made a definitive test here at the shack today.
I took the 4 to 1 current balunm out of the line and ran twin coaxes from
the ladder line outside to the balanced line output of my tuner. Aside from
needing to set things slightly differently from before I was still able to
achieve a good match on all bands but still got the arc on 160 when I try to
run power to the antenna.
Just thought you guys arguing over which balun works might want to know
this. For me, using the current balun I can use the auto tuner in my rig to
tune everything from 80 through 10 so I'm back to the drawing board as far
as other options.
Take care and 73.
Kevin, K7RX