[TowerTalk] 135 foot dipole, 300 ohm twinlead

[Tim Kass]

I agree with Jan here, that is what I have and it works excellent, better 
than any other dipole and even better than my loop....which was probably not 
up high enough...homebrew your own balanced tuner, its not hard.  i.e. see 
Cebik  W4RNL

73, Tim
K8WBL

>From: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm at telia.com>
>To: 'towertalk' <towertalk at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 135 foot dipole, 300 ohm twinlead
>Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:03:20 +0200
>
>If possible I would do away with the balun and
>run 400-600 ohm line all the way to the tuner,
>and use a balanced tuner.
>Also there are some 300 ohm TV twin lead out there
>that are quite lossy so that might be something
>to think about, better to make your own high Z
>open wire line.
>
>SM2EKM
>------------------------------------------------
>
>Buck - N4PGW wrote:
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Tom Rauch [mailto:w8ji at contesting.com]
> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:17 AM
> >>To: k2xx at swva.net; Buck - N4PGW
> >>Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> >>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 135 foot dipole, 300 ohm twinlead
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Buck, something isn't right.  A properly constructed and
> >>
> >>tuned balanced
> >>
> >>>feed line antenna should be less likely to generate TVI
> >>
> >>than a coax fed
> >>
>
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