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Eleven meters dipole project
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prcguy
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If the wires are short between the dipole and balun yes. Usually a 1:1 balun goes right at the antenna and your coax will run all the way to the antenna. What kind or brand of balun are you going to use?
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radiomancanada
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The wires will je around 20 feet long
Retroradio
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Ive run several dipoles on 11 meters. Simple to build and I never used a balun. Out of curiosity, why? Currnetly built a Super Bazooka dipole and it works great.
Are you feeding your dipole with ladder line, open wire as your drawing doesnt look like its fed wirh coax?
Are you feeding your dipole with ladder line, open wire as your drawing doesnt look like its fed wirh coax?
Retroradio
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Lots of good websites with dipole calculators for the overall length and each leg length if you want to build iit a specific frequency.
I build mine for ch27 and up as I dont use 26 and down. SWR is good across the band but best were I will use it the most.
prcguy
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Make the dipole length as others have mentioned and make the connecting wires from the balun to the dipole as short as possible running the coax all the way to the balun and dipole. You don't need a balun but an effective "current balun" will help isolate the antenna from the coax and make things play better.
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