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Subject: [TowerTalk] Steel wool baluns
From: w7why@harborside.com (Tom Osborne)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:41:25 -0700


Hi TT'ians

I was reading in an old QST magazine an article about using steel
wool for a balun.  A guy made one out of PVC pipe stuffed with
real fine steel wool with a 29" piece of coax going through it. 
Seems awfully simple to me.  Has anyone ever done that, and did
it work?  73
Tom W7WHY

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