Winston wrote:
I cant tell, Cecil. The vertical feedline connects via a PL connector
into a balum. I'm not sure it is a balum. It just looks like a balum.
There is what looks like a second balum at the bottom of the feed
line, PL connectors at both ends, and then 70 feet of RG-8. Maybe the
first balum is a 4 to1 and the second a 1 to 1.Bought it from Radio
World. Actually I am very pleased with it. I just wondered why most
of my contacts are in the same area, to the North.

Could be the top device is a 4:1 voltage balun which doesn't balance
the currents and that's why the vertical feedline radiates. The bottom
device is probably a 1:1 choke.

The slope of the land at my QTH favors Westward radiation. Perhaps that
is what you are experiencing.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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