I was raising a W3EDP antenna at our cabin yesterday, and hooked it to my KX1 via a BL2. I had taken a bunch of readings with an antenna analyzer, and didn't make a lot of sense of them anywhere except 20m - but I think I don't understand how the antenna is supposed to work. (I got 2.0:1 SWR on 40, but I was making contacts, too.)
That's a different topic of discussion. One thing I wished I had was a ferrite choke/unun to go between the BL2 and the coax. I have been infected with the idea that the ferrite bead baluns have high loss and relatively low impedance, and that a better design uses coax wound through one or two binocular cores. A lot like the BL2. So, how about it ... should there/could there be a UN1 mini-module? BNCs at either end (one M, one F?), maybe a switch to take the choke in/out of circuit? I know I don't know enough to design a good one, though I may try my hand at homebrewing one. 73 de chris K6DBG _______________________________________________ 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
