[TowerTalk] Steel wool baluns

[K3BU@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/14/01 8:46:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
w7why@harborside.com writes:

> 
>  I was reading in an old QST magazine an article about using steel
>  wool for a balun.  A guy made one out of PVC pipe stuffed with
>  real fine steel wool with a 29" piece of coax going through it. 
>  Seems awfully simple to me.  Has anyone ever done that, and did
>  it work?  73
>  Tom W7WHY
>  

Not verified, but speculating that steel wool (after a while) would act as a 
bunch of diodes (corroded junctions), rectifying RF currents and generating 
harmonics.

For monoband entennas I preferred 1/4 wave coax "bazooka" baluns. They widen 
the B/W of antennas, also work as filters/stubs on single band and take power 
without frying anything.

Yuri, K3BU

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