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"Bal uhn" or "bayl uhn"?
In message , John S
writes On 7/27/2015 5:55 PM, FBMBoomer wrote: On 7/27/2015 5:17 PM, Dave Platt wrote: Just today I got a question from a new ham on the pronunciation of balun. He has been around the scientific community a lot (physicists, etc.) but not many RF types such as engineers or hams. He claims that he rarely has ever hear the pronunciation "bal uhn", and I've rarely heard "bayl uhn". I suspect it may be a regional-accent sort of thing. Some people probably pronounce it based on its word origin ("balanced/unbalanced", hence "bal uhn") and some based on its appearance (like "basic" or "basted" or even "bailin' wire"). When balun is mispronounced "bayl uhn" it increases the original insertion loss by 2.3 percent. "Bailin" causes an increase loss of 3.3 percent. These losses can be reduced substantially by removing the "baeleen". If it is pronounced "transformer", the insertion gain goes up 3.05 degrees. F, C or K? -- Ian |
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"Bal uhn" or "bayl uhn"?
In message , Jeff writes
When balun is mispronounced "bayl uhn" it increases the original insertion loss by 2.3 percent. "Bailin" causes an increase loss of 3.3 percent. These losses can be reduced substantially by removing the "baeleen". If it is pronounced "transformer", the insertion gain goes up 3.05 degrees. F, C or K? Perhaps we should debate how to pronounce 'pronunciation' (:-)) As she is spelt - which is certainty NOT the way most of the BBC's employees - including members of its Pronunciation Department - do!!!! -- Ian |
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