Reg Edwards wrote:

If you CAN think of a specific reason then ask yourseslf, or somebody,
what type of balun do you want. There's very little to choose between
them.

But to get anywhere at all you MUST decide in terms of numerical and
statistical quantities.

Please be specific. Or just copy the widely distributed, plagiarised,
old wives, average recommendations.


Looked in a mirror this morning, Reg? You're doing exactly what you
condemn - except that your widely distributed, old wife's, average
recommendations are ones you made up all by yourself.

The middle paragraph is the part that's right. But everything else that
you wrote either misses that point or flatly contradicts it.



--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek

Dear Ian,

It's early in the morning. I havn't had time and I don't want to take much
time thinking about your rather slightly surprising comments.


You have completely misunderstood, gone off at a tangent, about my motives
in my very few writings on the subject of baluns.


I have never made recommendations about old-wives tales, whatever you think
they are, except, just in effect, to ignore them.


You, apparently, have now (quite mistakenly I venture to add) included
yourself amongst them.


Have you any shares in balun manufacturers? After all baluns are the only
thing left for old-wives and salesmen to haggle about. Don't bother
answering.


In conclusion, unless people can specify, in numerical terms, what is their
problem, then there's no hope of sensibly aquiring a balun of any sort. And
I have never yet met anybody who has so specified.

I feel guilty at prolonging such a trivial matter. But it's such an early
hour of the day. Havn't had breakfast yet!

A very good morning to you Ian.
---
Reg, G4FGQ

In message , Reg Edwards
writes
Dear Ian,

It's early in the morning. I havn't had time and I don't want to take much
time thinking about your rather slightly surprising comments.


You have completely misunderstood, gone off at a tangent, about my motives
in my very few writings on the subject of baluns.


I have never made recommendations about old-wives tales, whatever you think
they are, except, just in effect, to ignore them.


You, apparently, have now (quite mistakenly I venture to add) included
yourself amongst them.


Have you any shares in balun manufacturers? After all baluns are the only
thing left for old-wives and salesmen to haggle about. Don't bother
answering.


In conclusion, unless people can specify, in numerical terms, what is their
problem, then there's no hope of sensibly aquiring a balun of any sort. And
I have never yet met anybody who has so specified.

I feel guilty at prolonging such a trivial matter. But it's such an early
hour of the day. Havn't had breakfast yet!

A very good morning to you Ian.
---
Reg, G4FGQ


Evenin' Reg.
Not disagreeing with you at all. Just nit-picking about your less than
immaculate grammar!

My only problem with baluns is not understanding the obsession with the
4:1 or 9:1 transformation ratio.

73, Ian.
--

Ian Jackson wrote:
Evenin' Reg.
Not disagreeing with you at all. Just nit-picking about your less than
immaculate grammar!

My only problem with baluns is not understanding the obsession with the
4:1 or 9:1 transformation ratio.

Reg was relying to a different Ian :-)

--
73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek

In message , "Ian White, G3SEK"
writes
Ian Jackson wrote:
Evenin' Reg.
Not disagreeing with you at all. Just nit-picking about your less than
immaculate grammar!

My only problem with baluns is not understanding the obsession with
the 4:1 or 9:1 transformation ratio.

Reg was relying to a different Ian :-)


I suspected as much when I then spotted the thread to which I was
replying in another newsgroup. Put it down to crossmodulation, or maybe
old age.
Ian.
--

It is highly instructive to NOT think of a balun as an impedance
transformation device, but rather as a device which has the ability to steer
r-f currents. Thus viewed, a large amount of confusion melts away.


--
73, George W5YR
Fairview, TX

http://www.w5yr.com


"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...
Dear Ian,

It's early in the morning. I havn't had time and I don't want to take
much
time thinking about your rather slightly surprising comments.


You have completely misunderstood, gone off at a tangent, about my motives
in my very few writings on the subject of baluns.


I have never made recommendations about old-wives tales, whatever you
think
they are, except, just in effect, to ignore them.


You, apparently, have now (quite mistakenly I venture to add) included
yourself amongst them.


Have you any shares in balun manufacturers? After all baluns are the only
thing left for old-wives and salesmen to haggle about. Don't bother
answering.


In conclusion, unless people can specify, in numerical terms, what is
their
problem, then there's no hope of sensibly aquiring a balun of any sort.
And
I have never yet met anybody who has so specified.

I feel guilty at prolonging such a trivial matter. But it's such an early
hour of the day. Havn't had breakfast yet!

A very good morning to you Ian.
---
Reg, G4FGQ