From:
Fred Hopengarten K1VR 781/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address: fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 09:04:40 -0800 (PST) Pat Barthelow <aa6eg@cv.tmx.com>
writes:
>Question: Can I/Should I replace the ferrite balun with a coil
>balun, made of coax? Or should I replace the BN 86 with a more rugged
>Hygain ferrite Balun? (I'm assuming the balun has failed internally,
>as I have been told that this particular model was subject to
unreliablity when
>used at high power levels.
K1VR: The BN-86 failed. Use the new HyGain, or the Force 12. I use
five toroids over the coax with a male UHF connector and what amounts to
an empty box in the shape of a BN-86 (same pigtails and studs to a female
UHF conmnector).
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