[TowerTalk] Best Balun

[w6rgs at cox.net]

It is also in the Northern California DX Club newsletter for 
October1981, if we're talking about the same 
balun.  http://www.ncdxc.org/newsletter/1981/DXer1081.pdf
73 Bill W6RGS


At 03:48 PM 11/27/2014, James Wolf wrote:
>Ah yes,
>
>It is in Ham Radio Mag.
>
>Thanks, Bill
>
>Jim - KR9U
>
>----------------------
>I believe Jim meant the 1980 February and March issues of Ham Radio,
>for George, W6TC's 2 part series on "A New Class of Coaxial-line
>Transformers" ... (pages 12-18 in Feb. and 18-28 in Mar.)
>
>73 de Billy, AA4NU
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Wolf" <jbwolf at comcast.net>
>
>While we are commenting on all  types of baluns, you might want to look at
>February and March 1980 QST, specifically figure 1. In March 1980 by W6TC.
>I have used this type of balun on two TH6DXX's and a Cushcraft  2 el 40 for
>almost 25 years.
>
>Pattern plots with stations 3 miles away show very symmetrical patterns.
>The advantages are that they are very inexpensive to build, and no core
>saturation issues as well as almost indestructible.
>Be sure to use the recommended RG-142 or equivalent Teflon coax.
>
>Jim - KR9U