Guys,
I have sitting on my desk a commercial bauln which
is a 1:1 design.
The "design" consists of about 6 turns of about
pencil diameter coax wound on a toroid.
I'm more used to designs with multiple windings or
bead baulns.
I'm interested in using this to feed my 402CD 40
meter beam (50 ohms at
the antenna feed)
Questions:
Is this a valid "bauln" design?
Does it really transform unbalanced to balanced?
I'm convinced from past experience that best beam
performance occurs when the feed is truly
balanced.
Is it just a shrinkage (because of the toriod
permitivity) the 12 turn coax design which guys
seem to have both success and failure with?
Has anybody used similar designs on their 402CD?
73 de Brian/K3KO
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