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Re: [TowerTalk] Balanced Feedline for Ground Mounted Vertical?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Balanced Feedline for Ground Mounted Vertical?
From: "Jim Brown" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:14:31 -0700
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On Mon, 25 May 2009 11:42:27 -0400, Andy wrote:

>> Actually the open wire lines at medium wave BC stations exciting
>> verticals are all, as far as I know, unbalanced.

In general, if the antenna is unbalanced, the feedline will also be 
unbalanced. The only balanced feedline I've seen in a broadcast 
installation was feeding Rhombics and Sterba curtains at the VOA 
station in Mason, OH (midway between Cincinnati and Dayton). 

73,

Jim Brown K9YC


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