RE: [Elecraft] Tuner/Balun Question

2005-10-03 Thread Parker Buckley
Don, Okay, that's as I suspected. It makes sense to me that the tuner could resonate the antenna-feedline system, but that the currents may remain unbalanced. One of my antennas is a quad fed with open line, and such operation would probably skew the directivity. I think I'll stick with my balu

Re: [Elecraft] Tuner/Balun Question

2005-10-02 Thread Don
The output of a conventional tuner is not balanced and is intended to be connected to an unbalanced load like coax. However, it certainly is possible to connect it to a balanced feedline and it *may* find a match when so connected. However, the "balanced" feedline will not be balanced when th