"Paul" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:08:15 -0400, Bob wrote:

Hi
We have put together a dipole, each leg is 66 feet. We put a 1:1 balun
and
it is running about 60 feet of 50 ohm coax. Presently it is about half
way
up the tower it is intended for so we could check the SWR before getting
it
up to the highest point. Presently each leg has some lags and dips, no
major
bends but it is just hanging there, over some bushes and the entire
thing is
over top of the house, and not touching anything but is very close to
some
steel guy wires (uninsulated).
Now we can only tune this down to a useable SWR on the 80m band. On all
other bands we cannot tune it down to a safe operating range. We are
using a
good antenna tuner but cannot get anything useable except for 80m. Here
we
are able to tune the SWR right down.

Questions???
Would we be better without that balun?

Is the fact that the dipole is still too low and close to the guy wires
(
but not touching) our problem?

Any suggestions please??

Thank you.
Bob

Hi Bob,

There's someone asked exactly the same question on
rec.radioamateur.antennas & rec.radio.amateur.equipment.

Perhaps you should see what their responses have been.

paul M


That's because it's the same poster - rather than linking his posts he has
posted to each NG seperately.........