Re: [Elecraft] LDG antenna tuner with 132 foot balanced dipole similarto a G5RV antenna
Try an off-centre-fed dipole, you'll have lower swr at the antenna to start with meaning less loss in your matching unit to get it to 50ohms. Running modest power you can use coax and the right balun and choke at the feedpoint if you can stand the weight up there. An inverted V configuration holding the balun on a pole works well. See this: http://www.dj0ip.de/antennas/off-center-fed-dipole/80m-ocf/ David G3UNA Has anyone found a configuration that works better on all the bands? AE6RH Ron Midwin __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] LDG antenna tuner with 132 foot balanced dipole similarto a G5RV antenna
Ron --- Does the tuner have a setting as to how low an SWR it should attempt to get? Some say anything below 2:1 is fine. A trick I have found with some auto tuners is to try tuning at different places in a given band. If you can get a better match at some points, go back to where you want to actually be and see if it now finds a better match. 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
