Hi,
I've been lurking on this list for about a month now, so I guess this is my
official "hello" to the group. (Great group, BTW; excellent posts; am
learning a lot here!)
In the meantime I've bought and assembled a KX1 and am now thinking about
which antenne should accompany it on my upcoming holiday to the Alps... I'm
considering buying one of those DK9SQ telescopic masts (as soon as I've got
a definitive answer about the mast being RF absorbent or not; I want to be
able to use it to put up a vertical too) so I can put up a doublet antenna
in inverted vee mode. I don't like the 3 dB loss from 10 meters (that's 33'
for you non-metric people out there) of lightweight RG174 coax, so I'm
contemplating feeding with open wire.
Now the big question: how to connect the symmetric open wire feeders to the
KX1?
a) Don't bother; just plug one wire into the hot side and connect the other
side to the case
b) Use a balun
c) Something else.
If b), then what configuration would you use? How small a toroid would keep
up with the torturing that it might get in such a high SWR environment?...
Thanks in advance for all the help!
Cheers,
Frank
PA4N (ex-PA3FLV)
KX1 #1166
K2 coming up in a couple of months...
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