** Off center fed dipoles need to be fed with ladder-line and a Balanced
L-network tuner. If I were building such, I would use #12 bare Cu spaced
c. 4" for the feedline,
- cheers, Ken.
>This past weekend I was loading up a amp into a OCF dipole fed through a 4:1
>balun with 9913 belden cable. When I hit the 800 watt mark a big spark, so I
>figure ok the 4:1 went west on me. I change out the balun try again same
>results. I change out the feedline to rg/213 no problem. I check over the
>9913 and find a fair sized arc hole in the cable about 15 feet below the
>antenna. Anybody else have problems with this cable. There are no signs of
>moisture present in the cable, God knows I spent 1.5 hours looking for it. I
>see on the belden site they claim 10 KW rating at 1 mhz for a 1:1 vswr. No
>damage to the amp or tuner.
>
>Ken W8OB
>
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