In your original post you said:

"The only thing I have against them (current baluns) is
They are heavy.
and cause the antenna to droop lowering the height of the feedpoint."

Anyway, with say fifty pounds of tension just how much drop are you
talking about? And what difference does it make?




On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:11:43 -0400, "Hal Rosser"
wrote:

Add that 4 ounces to the weight of 50 feet of coax.
then subtract the weight of 50 feet of balanced line
that is a larger difference

"Dan Richardson arrl net" k6mheatdot wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:19:30 -0400, "Hal Rosser"
wrote:

The only thing I have against them (current baluns) is
They are heavy.
and cause the antenna to droop
lowering the height of the feedpoint.
Which is a good reason to put the balun near the radio and use balanced
feedline from there to the antenna
my 3.5 cents


I just weighed 50 beads that are used in W2DU's balun and came up with
a whopping 4 ounces!

Yea, four ounces should cause one hell of a droop.G

73,
Danny, K6MHE