On 10/15/2011 8:14 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > Back in the dark ages we had air core baluns. They were HUGE - an HF balun > might take up a couple of cubic feet of space - but they were impervious to > such failures since air doesn't saturate or crack, Hi!
They also didn't do much except make us feel better. Ferrite core chokes actually DO something useful. The cracked balun was poorly designed, so it overheated. That's a DESIGN mistake, not a "defect" of ferrite cores. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
