On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:36:47 -0500 (EST), "Charles H. Harpole"
<harpole@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
>I have run a TH-7 with the "little" balun (BN-86) for over five years with
>no failure at all and 1.5 kw into it and hammering it as hard as the law
>allows. I changed to the "bigger" balun (BN-4000) last year. Don't see
>any difference. K4VUD
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1.5 kw on SSB or CW is probably ok. It's us RTTY guys at full power
that smoke 'em I suspect. I changed mine too (before it smoked).
The new one probably has three or four hundred hours on it now and no
problem.
73, Bill W7TI
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