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Re: [TowerTalk] Balun Recommendation

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Balun Recommendation
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:08:42 -0700
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On 4/15/12 5:47 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/15/2012 1:48 PM, Frank wrote:
>> Good point.  Sounds like a good reason to build your own.
>
> One of the points I've tried to make in my writing is that we can build
> MUCH MUCH better ferrite chokes than we can buy at any price, if we
> understand how they work.  The ordinary stuff (in the $30-50 range) I've
> seen is essentially useless, and while the expensive stuff ($120 and up)
> is far less likely to burn up.  it isn't very effective either.
>

which makes me wonder, why is that..

There's a labor cost (which can be substantial.. something the "you can 
build it yourself cheaper" doesn't always contemplate).

but it seems that I could build, for instance, chokes with decent coax 
jumpers, some number of 2.4" mix 31 cores, and an enclosure of some sort 
for around $20-30 in parts.

Based on my experience in the "low volume specialty equipment" business 
for the entertainment industry, that would turn into a list price of 
around $200-300, normally sold discounted at maybe 20-30% off that.

Maybe that's why.. hams won't pay $250 for a decent choke.
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