On 8/20/11 7:01 PM, K8RI on TT wrote:
> Most of the tuners I see today use a 4:1 Balun to go from unbalanced to
> balanced.
> For a remote tuner wouldn't it make more sense and be more efficient to
> use a tapped coil, probably in a "T" arrangement and no balun to the
> open wire?
>
> IOW run the coax up the tower to the remote tuner. Tap the coax across a
> coil (rotary inductor) and use variable L and C to get a match to the
> balanced line?
>
With a choke on the coax before the tuner, whether the tuner is balanced
or unbalanced really makes no difference. Sure the internal circuit
might have different parasitic C to the box on one side or another, but
so does the antenna most likely.
It's really a two terminals in, two terminals out black box.
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