Tim!

I was out of order confusing your design services with baluns. Please
accept my apologies. But I did make it clear that CHOKE baluns were
involved. You may see elsewhere what a choke balun actually is.

If you already have a balanced tuner then by all means use it. But if
you don't have one there's no need to make one or buy one.

It is more convenient to use an ordinary unbalanced tuner plus a very
simple to make choke balun which has no particular impedance matching
properties apart from being a very short length of transmission line
of predictable Zo and predictable phase shift which don't matter very
much.

It seems my rhetorical question has inadvertently stirred up quite a
discussion the newsgroup.

I wish you much success with Wescott Design Services in 2006.
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Reg, just a radio amateur, G4FGQ.