That's a sign the dipole is significantly unbalanced or you have common mode signals getting into the receiver. The balun is supposed to take care of the common mode suppression, but that often depends upon the impedance it sees, which varies widely in a "tuned feeder" system.
A truly balanced line won't pick up RF or radiate significantly. OTOH, it could be that your dipole itself is simply closer to the house and noise than the vertical. BTW, every foot of coax in a system with high SWR costs you dearly in RF losses. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On ...Currently my most often used antenna is a dipole fed with ladder line. The ladder line connects to a balun and a short piece of coax to the radio with built in tuner. This setup tunes well but seems to pick up noise from the house. I should probably use more coax to get the ladder line a bit away from the house. 73 - Mike WA8BXN ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
