"Bob" wrote in message
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Hi
We have put together a dipole, each leg is 66 feet. We put a 1:1 balun and
it is running about 60 feet of 50 ohm coax. Presently it is about half way
up the tower it is intended for so we could check the SWR before getting
it
up to the highest point. Presently each leg has some lags and dips, no
major
bends but it is just hanging there, over some bushes and the entire thing
is
over top of the house, and not touching anything but is very close to some
steel guy wires (uninsulated).
Now we can only tune this down to a useable SWR on the 80m band. On all
other bands we cannot tune it down to a safe operating range. We are using
a
good antenna tuner but cannot get anything useable except for 80m. Here we
are able to tune the SWR right down.

Questions???
Would we be better without that balun?

If you want multi-band operation, then yes, you have to
forget the balun, or put multiple dipoles on the output lugs.
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Steve
KI5YG
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