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Old September 10th 04, 01:15 PM
Cecil Moore
 
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Jack Painter wrote:
... then I thought a 4:1 balun could help make 2182khz tunable on an
antenna with dipole properties that is really too short (would have to be
107' each leg not 107' total, which is about all I can get at that
location).


A "too short" dipole has a feedpoint resistance lower than 50 ohms.
Why would one use a 4:1 balun to attempt to divide that already too
low resistance by 4?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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