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[TowerTalk] Balanced Feedline for Ground Mounted Vertical?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Balanced Feedline for Ground Mounted Vertical?
From: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
Reply-to: k2xx@swva.net
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 12:00:34 -0400
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If one had to install a ground mounted vertical as far as 2,000 feet 
from the shack and wanted to avoid the expense of using low loss coax, 
could a balanced feedline be used as an alternative?  The idea would be 
to run the balanced feed line to the base of the antenna and connect to 
the antenna through a current balun.  The input to the feedline and the 
antenna would be matched by means of a balanced tuner in the shack.

Anyone have any thoughts on the effectiveness of this arrangement?

Thanks and 73,

Joe
K2XX
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