[TowerTalk] Ferrite, or choke baluns?

[Michael Germino]

Palomar Engineers have a "Balun Kit" that is basically Ferrite Beads that you slip over your coax and some heat shrink that you use to keep them in place.  $16.50 for the RG-8 one.
   
  What is your take on these, Jim?  Enough Ferrite Bead?  Seemed to work OK for me up to 40 Meters.
   
  http://www.palomar-engineers.com/Balun_Kits/balun_kits.html
   
  Mike
  AD6AA
   
  

Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
  



For about $20 in toroids, you can BUILD a choke balun that is VASTLY 
superior to anything you can buy for less than $100. The only choke balun 
worth buying is made by DX Engineering, and they are big, heavy, and cost 
about $130. They are EXCELLENT, but FAR too heavy to use at the feedpoint of 
my dipole. :) 

See http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf 

and 

http://audiosystemsgroup.com/NCCC-CoaxChokesPPT.pdf

73,

Jim Brown K9YC