> Guess I need a bit of clarification on a point or two. I
> am thinking monoband yagi, not LPDA for my questions.
Arne,
The Tennadyne log has two hot booms. Each boom is used as a
conductor in a balanced transmission line. The elements are
attached to those transmission line conductors which also
serve as a boom.
Many people install the antenna by placing a balun out at
the end of the booms. This divorces the boom to coax shield
path.
Then they run the same coax they decoupled right along the
boom, often taping it right to the lower boom.
Now they have the coax shield they painstakingly decoupled
from the boom being tightly coupled to a hot boom! The
mutual coupling is so high it undoes what the balun did, and
they are back to square one with terrible common mode on the
coax. It's just about as bad as using a balun at the
feedpoint of a dipole and then taping the coax to one leg of
the dipole for 15 feet after the balun.
None of this applies to any other system, unless that system
has a "hot boom".
73 Tom
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