[50mhz] HF balun on 6 meters
John Geiger
af5cc2 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 20:13:11 EDT 2016
I recently added a MFJ 918 balun to my TGM Communications MiniQuad. The
balun is rated for 3.5 to 30mhz. While changing some things around in the
shack today I ran the miniquad on 6m instead of the 6 meter beam, and it
showed a 1.4:SWR. That is much better than is rated for the miniquad on
6. The MFJ 918 is a section of coax with 50 ferrite beads on it. Could
the good SWR come from excessive loss in the balun on 6m? What happens if
you do use a balun beyond its rated frequencies?
73 John AF5CC
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