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Subject: [TowerTalk] TH-7DX Balun
From: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 20:29:53 -0700
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:14:38 +0200
From: LB3RE LJ3RE Stein-Roar Brobakken <post@lb3re.com>
To: Byron Tatum <bjtatum1@att.net>
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] TH-7DX Balun

HiIts a simple 1:1 current balun You can also use simple RF choke with 7-8 turn 
of coax on 3-4" diameter RG8/RG213.? Then i use RFI clips 15mm about 10 pcs 
from ebay is cheap instead of huge cost of something crappy.   The BN4000 been 
discussed here too in 2008  
http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2008-08/msg00106.html    

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Brobakken e-mail:post@lb3re.comhttp://la5o.wordpress.comwww.contesting.no


### 7-8 turns of  213u on  3-4 inch diam  isnt gonna  do a damn thing on 80m 
band..waste of time.  Stuff 4-5 turns of the same 213 u  through 8-10 x 2.4 
inch od type 31 cores..and then u have the real deal.

##  The BN-86 is fubar.    I destroyed 3 of em back in the 70s..with just low 
swr and 1900w  output cw  + ssb.  I had one on my 204ba, another one on the 80m 
inverted vee....and the 3rd one on my 40m half wave sloper.   I opened em up, 
and the magnet wire was burnt to a crisp !   If hy gain – mfj is still selling 
the bn-86 they are complete idiots.    And ditto with the w2au  big signal 
balun...more junk.  

Jim  VE7RF 
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