Brett,
There ARE kilowatt baluns, but the balun probably will not help a G5RV due
to the fact it is resonant on 20 as a gain antenna, and somewhat of a
mismatch on any other band. In fact, you would be better off running open
wire line all the way to a Tee tuner, then using a ferrite bead 1:1
What is the benefit of a balun?
I cant run them, as I run legal limit AM which
will toast any balun I ever heard of.
At 100 watts, or QRP, RF in the house cant be an issue,
I don't have problems with the AM and the G5RV right over the house.
I would think it would just add more loss.
I used
A few years back I bought a Buxcom G5RV and running 600 watts into it,
the balun that it came with was toast. I replaced it with 10 turns of
coax wrapped around a Folger's coffee can. Reading what G5RV had
written about his antenna, he recommended that a balun not be used with
his antenna.
--- Jozef Hand-Boniakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few years back I bought a Buxcom G5RV and running 600 watts into it,
the balun that it came with was toast. I replaced it with 10 turns of
coax wrapped around a Folger's coffee can.
So, you replaced the balun you normally use with New
What usually happens under those conditions may not damage the balun but
does cause lots of RFI: the balun turns non-linear!
When the magnetic flux saturates the core it heats and its magnetic
properties change dramatically. That produces a non-linear transfer
function. Non-linearity is the
On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:35:03 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
The bottom line is that modern baluns are NOT designed to be used in systems
with a wide range of impedances.
I suggest that those interested in this thread study my tutorial on RFI
and ferrites. It includes a long section on choke
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