[Antennas] balun ratio question

Tue Dec 6 17:31:26 EST 2005

With your significant horizontal space (enough for a 140' vee-dipole), you
have much better options for getting on 160 meters than by driving a dipole
cut for 80 meters into the ludicrous-zone. From off-center fed slopers to
end-fed inverted-L's, you could avoid lighting a fire in your tuner. Ladder
line helps with broadband response, but it does not help you do something a
center-fed dipole was never designed to do, and neither will a Balun
regardless of its windings.
r/
Jack
Virginia Beach
>>I'm going to be using some kind of current balun coming out of my
>ant tuner to a short piece of coax, to ladderline feeding a 140'
>dipole on 160-10m.
>>Two common ratios are available: 1:1, and 1:4. Which is optimal
>for the above situation?