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Old August 11th 11, 09:30 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Does anyone have plans for a 4:1 air core balun that actuallyworks?

raypsi skrev 2011-08-10 15:43:
Hey OM
The baluns I like to use are choke baluns and real transmission line
baluns, for ten meters and a 66% velocity factor coax that is 11ft of
RG213. That is 4:1 on ten meters only. And the high current, high
voltage nodes are at the ends of the coax.
73 OT
de N8ZU




On Jul 3, 6:50 wrote:
On 2 Jul,
wrote:

So....,does anyone have any plans for a 4:1 air core balun for feeding
450 ladder from a tuner that you have actually tested and used that
and it shows close to a 1.1:a SWR when presented with a 200 ohm load?


Why not just use a(n electrical) half wave loop of coax if you are only using
it on 10metres? Or even just a Pawsey stub for a balun and match elsewhere.
You can do a lot of (single band) matching with just a quarter wave of open
wire line with shorts/open circuits and taps.

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I have had success using a construction similiar to:

http://www.arising.com.au/people/Hol...h/CM4Balun.htm

Two coils are made out of two pieces 75 Ohm coax, each 4m long.
As coil forms i'm using tubular foam pipe isolation. I dont know
the correct word for them in English The type used has a diameter
of 6 cm.


These baluns has served me well. Using TV-coax, the whole construction
wheights very little.


73
Ben / SM0KBW