Re: Balun Questions

Posted by Phil Hystad-3 on Jul 23, 2010; 6:26pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Balun-Questions-tp5328810p5330910.html

Would this work with any tuner?  That is, can I take a regular unbalanced tuner and put a dummy load on the input and then use it to create an artificial mismatch for testing?

73, phil, K7PEH

P.S.   Loss issues would not be important for my thinking of doing this.

On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Brett,
>
> Do you have an old link coupled tuner - like the Johnson Matchbox or a
> homebrew one with plug-in coils?
> If you do, hook it up "backwards" with a dummy load on the normal input
> side.
> You have just created a tunable "artificial antenna" - tune the Matchbox
> to produce whatever load impedance you want.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> Brett Howard wrote:
> > But to go beyond that I'll need some sort of
> > antenna probably to do further testing cause I don't have enough loads
> > nor do I have a 200ohm dummy... ;)
> >
> >
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