I don't see why not - just like a transformer, if it was not reversible it wouldn't work for receiving signals properly. After all when you receive through it the antenna impedance is scaled back from 200 Ohm to 50 Ohm, is it not? If this is the case it'd scale 50 Ohm down to 12.5 Ohm just fine.
But... If your antenna has 12.5 Ohm of resistance, what is its reactance? If it is way too high it will not work efficiently no matter what balun you use. And out of those 12.5 Ohm, what part of it is radiation resistance? On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Al Lorona <[email protected]> wrote: > A 4:1 balun is always shown and talked about with the low impedance 50 ohm on > the unbalanced side and 200 ohm on the balanced side. > > Can it be connected backwards: 50 ohm unbalanced on the high impedance side, > and > 12.5 ohm balanced on the low impedance side? > > Al W6LX > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Alexey Kats (neko) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
