[TowerTalk] Best Balun

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions (many off line) for a better 
balun than my BN-86's.  I just ordered from Force 12  (Chip K7JA) their 
bead balun model EB-1 as this is easier for me to install on the boom 
compared to the Comtek boxed unit which also looked very good with their 
specs..

On a related balun question...many years ago before beads were easily 
obtained some hams claimed that their solution was to run there coax 
though a piece of PVC tubing loaded full of  steel wool and then 
sealed.  Just curious if that idea ever had any real value to try or was 
this just an unsupported claim.  Somebody must have run tests on this 
perhaps.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ