[Antennas] Wire For Balun

[Charles Greene]

Kelley,

You should be able to buy #14 enameled wire at some if not most of the=20
electronic supply houses.  I know Ocean State Electronics has it; I bought=
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some there.

How much power do you need a balun for?  Here's 4:1 kit for 100 watts:

http://www.njqrp.org/balun/index.html


At 01:39 PM 10/19/2002 -0500, Kelley Shaddrick wrote:
>I need to make a couple of 4:1 baluns. I've seen a couple of different=
 plans
>on various websites that use enameled wire and toroid cores. I've got the
>cores, but where in the world can one get heavy gauge enameled wire these
>days? Can I use 14 gauge electrical wire? Would that change the number of
>windings? Also, I understand that I can use coax cable. Any plans for a=
 coax
>cable balun (maybe transformer is a better word) out there?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kelley -- W=D8RK


73, Chas, W1CG
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