[TowerTalk] Balun dimensions

[John Geiger]

100 watts most likely unless I happen to stumble upon a 200 watt rig.  Won't be using an AMP with it.

73 John AF5CC




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On Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 at 5:07 PM, Jim W7RY <jimw7ry at gmail.com> wrote:

> How much power are you going to run?
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> Jim W7RY
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> On 6/25/2025 12:40 PM, John Geiger via TowerTalk wrote:
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> > The balun I was using on my TGM Communications MQ-26 miniquad died a couple of months ago. I came up with the idea today of making one myself since I have some extra RG58 I salvaged from a mobile antenna mount. I plan on running some turns of it on a FT240-31 ring torrid. Maybe 2 rings, one on top of the other. I need it to cover 14-50mhz. Any good idea as to how many turns through the ring I need?
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> > I have found some plans using a FT140-43 torrid but that looks pretty small to work with.
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> > 73 John AF5CC
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