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Flying Rockmite 20 metere QRPp tranciever issues and projects
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Antenna Balun #2

Closed hcarter333 closed 1 year ago

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

Does the coax fed antenna need a balun? Are the exterior of the coax cable and I becoming part of the antenna system unintentionally? There are lots of detailed models on this site. https://owenduffy.net/balun/Guanella/G.1-1.htm along with references to foundational articles on baluns.

Not going to an unbalanced conductor (coax) seems like the simplest solution. Then, I just need to develop a quick connect/disonnect system for radio in the antenna operation.

Checkout the connector from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_5_cable image

hcarter333 commented 1 year ago

Research shows that Baluns are needed for coax line to dipole antennas. The desktop Rockmite is working fine without one though. I'm tabling this for now. Another solution has been identified above, which is simply to embed the radio in the dipole.