[TowerTalk] Balanced Feedline for Ground Mounted Vertical?

[bill rubin]

What's at the end ? Wire antenna or beam ?

On 5/23/09, Joe Giacobello <k2xx at swva.net> wrote:
> If one had to install a ground mounted vertical as far as 2,000 feet
> from the shack and wanted to avoid the expense of using low loss coax,
> could a balanced feedline be used as an alternative?  The idea would be
> to run the balanced feed line to the base of the antenna and connect to
> the antenna through a current balun.  The input to the feedline and the
> antenna would be matched by means of a balanced tuner in the shack.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on the effectiveness of this arrangement?
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Joe
> K2XX
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