Would welcome advice from the more experienced on a suggested feed line arrangement.
I am erecting a horizontal loop (more rectangular than square) which will be 95 to 105 metres in circumference, up about 8 to 10 metres. This is to be connected to a KAT100 tuner. The loop configuration has been chosen as the K2 is on second floor and this enables the feed line length to be only 5 metres in anticipation of high swrs and potentially high feed line losses. Also for low neighbour visibility. The loop passes through trees to be in the clear but it is not possible to reduce the length to 80m, and tune it to the CW parts of the bands, without hitting tree branches. I will be operating 80 through 20m Thoughts for the feed line are:- 1) Use 5M of RG213 from Ant to tuner 2) Use 3M 450 ohm ladder line to Balun (BL1 4:1) and then 2m coax. (this gets the balun out of the weather. 3) Balun at the ant (?:1) plus RG213 to tuner Which of the above is considered preferable and why? Other suggestions? Thanks -- 73, Nigel, ZL2DF _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
