Yes, I am sure you are quite correct about it being as happy with the
counterpoise as a ground rod, however, it STILL would be an "unbalanced"
ant... and requireing an UnUn, IF my understanding is correct... a dipole
is "balanced".....

Regards,
John

"funkbastler" wrote in message
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| On Tue, 03 May 2005 13:40:27 -0400, Ken wrote:
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| I have made a couple of the NJQRP W1CG low power 4:1 current baluns.
| See:
| http://www.njqrp.org/balun/index.html
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| The author says they can be used for longwire. Inasmuch as the
| balanced terminals seem to have identical circuitry behind them, it
| would not appear to matter to which balanced terminal you connect the
| longwire. Where do you connect the other balanced terminal? To RF
| ground? To a tuned counterpoise? To the sheath of the coax on the
| unbalanced side?
|
|
| ok.... whether it's a BALUN or an UNUN, I'm using the same type
| of "matching device" or "impedance transformation device" with an
| end-fed wire that's roughly 1/4 wavelength at 160 meters (so I
| guess that's about a 40 meter piece of wire). One "balanced"
| terminal goes to the wire, the other goes to a ground rod. I'm
| sure it would be just as happy, maybe happier, connected to a
| counterpoise instead of the ground rod.
|
| Works quite well.
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