Re: [Elecraft] 9:1 Balun AND "random antennas"

2017-02-01 Thread Jim Brown
Hi Dick, Sure, you're welcome to forward stuff like this. As to stuff on my website -- I do NOT permit it to be copied to other websites, but I DO encourage links to it. 73, Jim K9YC On Wed,2/1/2017 8:16 AM, Richard Fjeld wrote: Jim, If you don't object, I'd like to save this and forward

Re: [Elecraft] 9:1 Balun AND "random antennas"

2017-02-01 Thread Richard Fjeld
Jim, If you don't object, I'd like to save this and forward to people as arguments develop on these subjects. I wish you had touched on '4:1 baluns'. Except for this group, so many people I talk to think a balun should be 4:1, even in their tuners. I think it is DX Engineering that

Re: [Elecraft] 9:1 Balun AND "random antennas"

2017-01-31 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
On 1/31/2017 1:50 PM, Jim Brown wrote: Last I looked, there was no description of the Elecraft "balun" telling us what it is. Perhaps Eric or Wayne could add that to the catalog listing for it. The manual for the Elecraft BL2 shows exactly what it is:

Re: [Elecraft] 9:1 Balun AND "random antennas"

2017-01-31 Thread Jim Brown
All of this discussion becomes badly confusing by failing to describe these circuit elements by their real name. The word "balun" is a bastard -- it is widely used to describe nearly a dozen things that are VERY different from each other. W4TV got it right by adding the correct description,