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[TowerTalk] Re: 9:1 baluns

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: 9:1 baluns
From: n7rt@doitnow.com (Hardy Landskov)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 20:09:08 -0700
At 01:54 AM 8/20/97 +0900, Tom Osborne wrote:
>Stu Greene wrote:
>> 
>> Has anyone ever used a 9 to 1 balun, and if so, what was the application?
>> ThanksIn the ON4UN low band dxing book, some of the beverage antennas
use the 
>9:1 balun.
>Tom W7WHY
>
>Beverages don't use baluns--they use 9:1 transformers since the impedance
transformation is from unbalanced to unbalanced. By the way, I use
Mini-Circuits T9-1 transformers on my beverages with great success. They
typically provide at least 20 dB return loss (1.22 VSWR) to the 50 ohm coax
coming into the station.
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