[Elecraft] Baluns & wires & feeders (oh, my!)

[Don]

Sorry,  I just can not understand why that should be so.  I have managed to 
heat very large toroid baluns to the point where wire insulation melted just 
by driving a 100 watts or so into an extreme SWR.  Perhaps you are assumming 
a simple 1:1 choke balun?  A 4:1 voltage balun can easily have extremely 
high circulating currents within the balun that will cook it in a hurry 
under high swr feedline conditions.

Don K7FJ


>    A balun wound on a toroid can have no more than 5% loss at 100 Watts. 
> Just relax and use your antenna. It might be hard to load on 40 and 20 
> Meters but it should work ok.
>
> 73 Karl K5DI
>