[TowerTalk] Force 12 B-1/B-1S Baluns

[Tom H Childers]

One reason those folks, which has included me have done that, is
because most loaded Yagi-Uda antennas sold by CushCraft and others
recommend doing just that in the assembly instructions!




On Tue, 14 May 2013 20:28:54 +0100, "Ian White"
<gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk> wrote:

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>>How many times have you seen a coiled-coax choke taped
>>to a boom - think about that in terms of a high-Q parallel tuned circuit!
>>
>Not only that, but taping the choke to the boom is adding extra capacitance between one side of the driven element and the boom. In other words, taping the "choke balun" directly to the boom is making the antenna more UNbalanced!  It's amazing to watch people doing this... 
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>73 from Ian GM3SEK
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73,
Tom
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