[TowerTalk] Open Wire

[Jim Brown]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:10:30 -0500, Rob Atkinson wrote:

>Having written all that, I just might take down one of my dipoles and
>feed it with coax and see how it is.   I freely admit that I might
>have to eat crow afterwards.

Unbalance has VERY little to do with TX performance (perhaps a dB or so 
pattern tilt). It's all about common mode on the line either receiving 
noise or radiating to cause RFI. Think of it this way -- if that line is 
adding 6dB of noise and you kill it, you can now hear signals that are 
6dB weaker. And we all know that if you can't hear 'em, you can't work 
'em!  

73,

Jim K9YC