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Old July 31st 03, 12:18 AM
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Ken Bessler wrote:
Should I feed it with 300 ohm HD twinlead, 450 ohm ladder line with or
without a Bal-Un or rg58 coax with or without a Balun?


If you want to approach the limits of efficiency, feed it with open-wire
line, usually around a Z0 of 600 ohms. Feedline length will be important.
IMO, use a 1:1 balun/choke at the tuner output.
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