That sounds as bad or worse than my BN-86 experience.
John KK9A
To: "StellarCAT" <rxdesign@ssvecnet.com>, <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W2AU Baluns??
From: "AA6DX - Mark" <aa6dx@arrl.net>
Reply-to: AA6DX - Mark <aa6dx@arrl.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:32:08 -0700
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
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