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Re: [TowerTalk] homebrew 1:1 current balun

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] homebrew 1:1 current balun
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:21:07 -0800
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On 12/2/15 7:30 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:11:19 -0800


Have you considered using a 2.4" toroid core(s) and running multiple
turns of the coax through it.  I can get about 10-12 turns of 1/4"
diameter coax (RG58 type) through those cores. I think you can get 3-5
turns of 0.405" coax (RG213 type) through it.

There's a fairly decent cookbook for this kind of thing, with all the
measurements on actual chokes, etc. in Chapter 7 of
http://www.audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf

##  You can easily get  7 turns of  RG-213U  through 2.4 inch OD  cores.   
Ditto  with RG-393.
To make for a more compact balun assy,  3-8 cores can be positioned  on either 
side, like
binocular fashion, then tightly wound...if using  RG-213U  or   RG-393.

if there's no connector on the coax<grin>

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