I don't think Walt's contributions were being disparaged: rather attempts of
others in the commercial world to cut costs led to poor quality and contributed
to the negative events noted, leading to what one might attribute to the
appearance of a "tarnished legacy."
Walt's contributions and generosity in making them available to all without
patent protection were legendary.
I note similar criticism is levied by some on Jerry Sevick, who, along with
Walt, then, and Jim Brown and others more recently, who have shed so much light
into the still strangely misunderstood area of baluns, common mode chokes, and
related problems and solutions.
73,
Ed McCann
AG6CX
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> On Mar 15, 2017, at 7:40 PM, Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org> wrote:
>
> It's disturbing to me to see my late friend Walt Maxwell, W2DU, disparaged
> this way.
>
> Walt addressed this issue before his passing here:
> http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2300
>
> Wes N7WS
>
>> On 3/15/2017 5:32 PM, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
>> In the wayback, we called the product "Antenna Fuse" == fine 100 watts, but
>> even a Heath SB-220 could fry them -- I know, hating climbing the tower in a
>> November contest to take the "fuse" out of the system .. or dropping the
>> antenna during a severe rain storm.. of which in Sweeps and/or CQWW, was
>> most always storming .. I never recommended them after a couple years of
>> this -- es really bad if you, in the midst of a contest and having
>> temporarily lost your senses, transmitted on the wrong aerial --- SHAZZAM!
>> YOUR ANTENNA FUSE BLEW!
>> 73 es CU IN THE TESTS.. Mark AA6DX Eureka, FAR Northern California
>> ---------
>> -----Original Message----- From: StellarCAT
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:06 AM
>> To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
>>
>> the ones I had were junk. Two of the 5 fell apart on their own (bad internal
>> soldering) ... one was used in a phased array and even though the markings
>> were followed for getting the right phasing it was indeed phased backwards
>> forcing a tower climb and real stretch to get to that one. I changed all
>> that I could get to with a Balun Design balun and never looked back.
>>
>> Gary
>> K9RX
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Draughn
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:00 AM
>> To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
>>
>> I recently built an OCF dipole using a W2AU 4:1 balun. It seems to be
>> working very well especially on 40 and 80 meters but I don't know much
>> about the balun. I'm a little concerned about the power handling
>> capabilities. It's not very big but what's left of the label says 1500
>> watts..I think.
>> Anyone have any experience with these?
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff,
>>
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