Ladder line Vs. Coax
Sonny Hood wrote:
I have a 160M windom and a G5RV and will dedicate this
inverted vee antenna to 75M.
There's your answer. And here's the readers digest version of it.
As a rule of thumb, if you are going to use an antenna cut for a
specific band, cut it for that, and use coax, and a balun.
If you want to have multiple bands from one antenna without traps or
tricks, use ladder line and a tuner.
The ladder line can handle the wildly varying VSWR, and the tuner will,
well, allow the Xciever to see an impedence it likes.
- 73 de Mike N3LI -
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