Ok, so this morning, I went out to the shack and whipped up a balun, from a G3TXQ design I found on the website of W5DXP.com. It is coax wrapped around a ferrite core, with appropriate connectors in a plastic weathertight box. I used RG8X coax, a 2.4" core, not sure exactly what mix, and 11 turns.
How do I test this device to get its properties, impedance at various frequencies, etc? It appears to function when I put it inline. The KAT100 seems happy. It produces a decent match on 40-10m using the 44' long rotating dipole at ~37' fed with 450 ohm twin lead. I have no idea how efficient it might be, of course, if at all. I still don't hear the VP8 much above the noise. :>( 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen Sent from my iPad ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
