Stuart:
I agree and raised an eyebrow when I saw that a balun was being used on a
Windom. I recall the development of the Windom originally was with a
twinlead arrangement an a tuner.
I tried a Windom with a twinlead feed to a tuner and had lots of RF on
certain bands.
73
Bob, K4TAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Argo Speech Processor Question (was Argo V distortion)
> I question having a balun on a Windom. Since the true windom has unequal
> lengths of radiator either side of a feedpoint, it can never be balanced.
> The balun will be looking into an unbalanced load of the antenna
radiators,
> and thus RF current will flow back over the coax shield outer side
connected
> to the balun. Down at the shack end, the RF will get into things, maybe
on
> bands where the coax is resonant or near resonant and not on other bands,
> thus distortion could be from RF in the shack on certain bands getting
into
> the audio circuits of the mike.
> GL,
> Stuart
> K5KVH
>
>
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