[TowerTalk] Best Balun

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:55:58 -0600
From: Gary K9GS <garyk9gs at wi.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Best Balun
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###  They have em available..in PAIRS, from .5 inch....all the way up to  3.25 inch.... in tiny increments. 
http://www.dxengineering.com/search/brand/dx-engineering/product-line/dx-engineering-element-clamps

Jim  VE7RF



Like these?

http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-ecls-200

They have other sizes available.

On 11/26/2014 10:30 PM, Wayne Kline wrote:
> Another neat trick with a torrid wound  balun.
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> I  weld a #10-32   1/2  machine screw to a 2" all stainless hose clamp  jus 1" past the end of the tightening slots.
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> I then drill a hole in the  4" dead center in the bottom of the NEMA Box/  insert the threaded 10/32 machine screw  in the hole DEAD center of the wound torid
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> Instant mounting   all my boom are  2"  but can install what ever size clam you need .
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>   Wayne
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> Ps
>    4 yrs ago I had a wind milling antenna... the coax STRECHED  RG-213  ... ripping the  brad and stretching  the insulation rg8X size  never tor the center conductor.
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> the W2FMI build torrid stayed   attached to the boom by the  #10 machine screw ..
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