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Re: [TowerTalk] Balun dimensions

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Balun dimensions
From: Steve Harrison <k0xp@k0xp.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:59:53 -0700
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On 6/25/2025 10:40 AM, John Geiger via TowerTalk wrote:
The balun I was using on my TGM Communications MQ-26 miniquad died a couple of 
months ago. I came up with the idea today of making one myself since I have 
some extra RG58 I salvaged from a mobile antenna mount. I plan on running some 
turns of it on a FT240-31 ring torrid. Maybe 2 rings, one on top of the other. 
I need it to cover 14-50mhz. Any good idea as to how many turns through the 
ring I need?

I have found some plans using a FT140-43 torrid but that looks pretty small to 
work with.

Try looking through this "catalog" of chokes: http://k9yc.com/2018Cookbook.pdf ; He has other pages showing other types of chokes on his main page at http://k9yc.com/publish.htm

Steve, K0XP


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