[450] [Spam?] Ladder Line

[Shawn Zupp]

How was the fest?

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:00 AM David Garcia <wb2rxf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I can't say I wasn't warned. I decided to have the 450D checked at
> cesars house on a dummy load, because I thought I was doing something wrong
> with the output power being so low and this is what we  Saw - 6 / 15 /
> 12meters at 12 watts being set at 100 watts --- 10 meters peaked at 80 to
> 90watts --- Now 20 meters 40 watts peak and went lower to 20watts on
> 40meters / 80 meters 15watts and 160 meters less than 10. I spoke with
> the original owner and he's gonna give me a refund. Now I feel between a
> rock and a hard place, as I'm now hooked lol, on getting HF back. Have you
> heard anything bad about the FT991A? Would love to get a IC-7300 but for
> the price and only HF / 6 meter -Eh... This will mean I have to sell my
> FT736R, to combine it with the refund. By the way I ordered another the
> other 2m7 yesterday to stack, what would you recommend for phasing cables,
> the prices I see are crazy, for such short runs. I understand precision is
> key, but yikes, heh. Guess you get what you pay for.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:32 PM Robert Busino <n1ujs at toast.net> wrote:
>
>> Short answer, yes.  A balun.....converts balanced to unbalanced line or
>> vice-versa.  The problem then becomes, what impedance transformation to
>> use.  If the balanced line is going to feed the dipole directly, the actual
>> impedance will likely NOT be 450 ohms.  Simplest method to determine what
>> will work would likely be to feed the balanced line to the balanced line
>> connection on your tuner and see how that works on all the key bands.
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From*: "David Garcia" <wb2rxf at gmail.com>
>> *Sent*: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 2:57 PM
>> *To*: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
>> *Subject*: [Spam?] [450] Ladder Line
>>
>>  I would like to switch over to it, for my dipole, instead of using coax,
>> is there an connector like a SO-239 to connector with connection to twin
>> led ladder line? w2bqe former KC2DYY suggested making a 6 to 8 inch pigtail
>> with RG8X. Thoughts.? My 736r is on some call this way on 450 SSB
>>
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