Topband: FW: Balun or no balun

[Charlie Cunningham]

That loop might do better for DX if you fed it 1/2 way up one end.

73,
Charlie, K4OTV

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Cunningham [mailto:charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 12:54 AM
To: 'W3AW'
Subject: RE: Topband: Balun or no balun

Why the 30' of ladder line?  Why not just run coax to the loop and put a 1:1
current balun at the feed point. A bit of VSWR on the coax wouldn't produce
any significant loss in 50' of coax at 160m! Of course, if you want to use a
balanced line tuner , that's another matter.
 73,
Charlie, K4OTV

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of W3AW via
Topband
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 11:47 PM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Balun or no balun

I have put up a 160 meter horizontal loop fed with 30 feet of 450 ohm feed
line to my tuner.  I have a Radioworks 4 to 1 balun. I am considering
splicing into the feed line at 10 feet so I can run 20 feet of  coax into
the shack.  Thoughts?  I run a qrp plus on 160.

Kirk
W3AW
Illinois
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