Heh...heh...well, I gotta jump in here after lurking in
the background. I had a BN-86 go bad on TH7DXX (Ohhh
sounds powerful!!) and I was able to get it's case open with
a vise to hold it, a sharp utility knife and a hammer to nudge
the knife along the seams.
SO, what I found was that the connections inside were
rivoted together and those rivots had rusted plus there
was some corroision. I rewound the balun, soldered all
the connections, sealed the case back up, provided a
drain hole and made the thing usable....been working fine
ever since, certainly more than 10 years and I run a brute
Alpha most of the time.
Charlie, N0TT
On Sun, 1 May 2016 22:17:13 -0400 <john@kk9a.com> writes:
> Everyone with a BN-86 should disintegrate it and buy a real balun. I
> bought
> one with my very first tribander and it didn't last very long.
>
> John KK9A
>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hi-Gain BN-86 Balun
> From: Bob K6UJ <k6uj@pacbell.net>
> Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 17:50:59 -0700
> List-post:
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>
> Jon,
>
> Maybe he did and it was so badly burnt up the pic was blank because
> it completely disintegrated :-)
>
> Bob
> K6UJ
>
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