Mine works just fine. Been hanging in the weather for 9 years.

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:08:10 GMT, Conan Ford
wrote:

"-=jd=-" wrote in
0:



All good advice and well taken, but if someone doesn't have the
interest or ability to wind their own transformers (to hear the
"ear-ball" effects of different kinds) and if they don't have a
noise-bridge or some way to measure/analyze their antenna, then there
will always be an element of "pure guess" involved to one extent or
another. In which case, just get the 9:1 or 10:1 and be done with it.
In other words, for the *average* listener, don't sweat the granular
details. Just rig something up and start listening! Most any random
wire/transformer combination (within reason) is better than a whip
antenna, or something inside the shack. Just my $.02 worth...

-=jd=-

It is much cheaper to wind your own transformers--a $5 torroid and $2 of
magnet wire, plus a few connectors and a box. It's either that, or pay up
$40 for a pre-built balun, and you don't know what winding method they used
(or how sloppy it is) since it's all potted in epoxy.