On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:56:09 -0400, "Hal Rosser"
wrote:


"Dan Richardson arrl net" k6mheatdot wrote in message
.. .
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?


Apparently it makes more difference to me than it does to you.
I don't want it digging into the tree branches.
Nothing wrong with your view - its probably a better-informed view than
mine - but I'll still use balanced line and I still think baluns are too
heavy. I'm just hard-headed that way. :-)


You may choose to use the balun near the ground where its weight can
be supported and you can use coax to bring in the lead from outside.
The piece of balanced line will give you low loss to the balun and the
loss from the coax will be minimum due to the short length.

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73 for now
Buck
N4PGW