I just read the Aerials article by Krusty Kurt in the October issue of World Radio. Near the end of the article, Kurt is describing a well known method of running parallel coax through the wall to connect ladder line to the antenna tuner. His method ties the shields together at both ends to get 100 ohm feedline, while I've always left the braids near the ladder line floating. What really caught my attention, however, is his comment that you can run the parallel coax lines straight to the tuner without a balun. I've always used a balun in this setup; either 4:1 or 1:1. I recall emails to this reflector in the past describing connection of ladder line straight to an Elecraft tuner with no problems. I'm now wondering if I could ditch the baluns in my installation. Any thoughts/experience with this? Is the output from a tuner balanced at the coax connector up until such time that it's connected to an unbalanced load like a single coaxial line?
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