From:
Fred Hopengarten, K1VR
Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773-5105 * 617/259-0088
e-mail: k1vr@juno.com
Big antennas, high in the sky, are better than small ones, low.
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:14:22 -0500 Tony Brock-Fisher
<fisher@hp-and2.an.hp.com> writes:
>You must get the phasing on the baluns correct! After you put it up,
>if
>you switch to both-in-phase and the signal strength decreases, one
>of the baluns needs to be reversed. GL!
>
>-Tony, K1KP, fisher@hp-and2.an.hp.com
AMEN! When I stacked a TH6 over a TH7, I discovered that physically
mounting the BN-86 baluns the same way put the baluns "out of phase" due
to the TH7 dual driven element. That cost me sorely two years ago. --
Fred K1VR
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