[TowerTalk] Balun for G5RV

DGB ns9i2016 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 13:57:27 PST 2011


And is it acceptable to enclose them in a non-conductive enclosure Jim, 
even at high power (1500w)?  We can get ice 3" thick sometimes!

73 Dwight NS9I

On 2/1/2011 12:14 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 2/1/2011 12:53 AM, Steve Hunt wrote:
>> what you need is a good 1:1 current balun at
>> the ladderline/coax junction.
> You can roll your own for about $10 that will be FAR better than
> anything you can buy at any price. See Fig 48 and the Choke Cookbook in
> http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf  Use the version of the choke
> would with bifilar turns of #12 THHN (ordinary house wire).
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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