It's disturbing to me to see my late friend Walt Maxwell, W2DU, disparaged this
way.
Walt addressed this issue before his passing here:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2300
Wes N7WS
On 3/15/2017 5:32 PM, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
In the wayback, we called the product "Antenna Fuse" == fine 100 watts, but
even a Heath SB-220 could fry them -- I know, hating climbing the tower in a
November contest to take the "fuse" out of the system .. or dropping the
antenna during a severe rain storm.. of which in Sweeps and/or CQWW, was most
always storming .. I never recommended them after a couple years of this -- es
really bad if you, in the midst of a contest and having temporarily lost your
senses, transmitted on the wrong aerial --- SHAZZAM! YOUR ANTENNA FUSE BLEW!
73 es CU IN THE TESTS.. Mark AA6DX Eureka, FAR Northern California ---------
-----Original Message----- From: StellarCAT
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:06 AM
To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
the ones I had were junk. Two of the 5 fell apart on their own (bad internal
soldering) ... one was used in a phased array and even though the markings
were followed for getting the right phasing it was indeed phased backwards
forcing a tower climb and real stretch to get to that one. I changed all
that I could get to with a Balun Design balun and never looked back.
Gary
K9RX
-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Draughn
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:00 AM
To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
I recently built an OCF dipole using a W2AU 4:1 balun. It seems to be
working very well especially on 40 and 80 meters but I don't know much
about the balun. I'm a little concerned about the power handling
capabilities. It's not very big but what's left of the label says 1500
watts..I think.
Anyone have any experience with these?
Thanks,
Jeff,
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