[Antennas] New Carolina Windom Balun?

Chris Boone Cboone at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 17 21:34:00 EDT 2010


Baluns can be both or just one or the other...BALUN = BALanced to
Unbalanced.....

Transformer does not have to be a unbalanced to balanced one...it could stay
UN to UN..or BAL to BAL....

(I say potato; you say potatoe :)

Chris

> -----Original Message-----

> de WB2CPN
> I thought a BALUN was a Transformer.
> No matter how they are drawn, they both
> have Primaries and Secondaries.  The term
> Windom is getting far-fetched.  The Windom
> was a half-wave dipole, fed with a single wire
> at the 600 Ohm point off center.  Transmitter
> feeding the single wire saw a 600 Ohm Z.
> Un-Confuse me.
> 73  Clete



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