[TowerTalk] Hi-Gain BN-86 Balun

[n0tt1 at juno.com]

Heh...heh...well, I gotta jump in here after lurking in
the background.  I had a BN-86 go bad on TH7DXX (Ohhh
sounds powerful!!) and I was able to get it's case open with
a vise to hold it, a sharp utility knife and a hammer to nudge
the knife along the seams. 

SO, what I found was that the connections inside were
rivoted together and those rivots had rusted plus there
was some corroision.  I rewound the balun, soldered all
the connections, sealed the case back up, provided a
drain hole and made the thing usable....been working fine
ever since, certainly more than 10 years and I run a brute
Alpha most of the time.

Charlie, N0TT

 
On Sun, 1 May 2016 22:17:13 -0400 <john at kk9a.com> writes:
> Everyone with a BN-86 should disintegrate it and buy a real balun.  I 
> bought
> one with my very first tribander and it didn't last very long.
> 
> John KK9A
> 
> To:        towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject:        Re: [TowerTalk] Hi-Gain BN-86 Balun
> From:        Bob K6UJ <k6uj at pacbell.net>
> Date:        Sun, 1 May 2016 17:50:59 -0700
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> Jon,
> 
> Maybe he did and it was so badly burnt up the pic was blank because
> it completely disintegrated :-)
> 
> Bob
> K6UJ
> 
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