[TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??

Wes Stewart wes_n7ws at triconet.org
Wed Mar 15 22:40:26 EDT 2017


It's disturbing to me to see my late friend Walt Maxwell, W2DU, disparaged this way.

Walt addressed this issue before his passing here: 
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2300

Wes  N7WS

On 3/15/2017 5:32 PM, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
> In the wayback, we called the product "Antenna Fuse" == fine  100 watts, but 
> even a Heath SB-220 could fry them -- I know, hating climbing the tower in a 
> November contest to take the "fuse" out of the system .. or dropping the 
> antenna during a severe rain storm.. of which in Sweeps  and/or CQWW, was most 
> always storming .. I never recommended them after a couple years of this -- es 
> really bad if you, in the midst of a contest and having temporarily lost your 
> senses, transmitted on the wrong aerial --- SHAZZAM! YOUR ANTENNA FUSE BLEW!
> 73 es CU IN THE TESTS..  Mark  AA6DX  Eureka, FAR Northern California ---------
> -----Original Message----- From: StellarCAT
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:06 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
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> the ones I had were junk. Two of the 5 fell apart on their own (bad internal
> soldering) ... one was used in a phased array and even though the markings
> were followed for getting the right phasing it was indeed phased backwards
> forcing a tower climb and real stretch to get to that one. I changed all
> that I could get to with a Balun Design balun and never looked back.
>
> Gary
> K9RX
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Draughn
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:00 AM
> To: TowerTalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
>
> I recently built an OCF dipole using a W2AU 4:1 balun. It seems to be
> working very well especially on 40 and 80 meters but I don't know much
> about the balun. I'm a little concerned about the power handling
> capabilities. It's not very big but what's left of the label says 1500
> watts..I think.
> Anyone have any experience with these?
> Thanks,
> Jeff,
>
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