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In Reply to: Re: Talk low loss balun please posted by paba on October 7, 2006 at 15:42:14:
He told me what the essential difference would be for reception, after detailing the numbers and the theory: for difficult stations and distant stations a significant improvement, but for closer stations probably not. Bottom line seems to be that if I already get it in stereo, I'm not going to notice much difference; had I only received scratchy stuff in mono, probably a lot. My problem isn't the latter, so I'm going to just stick with what I have.In fact, since the new RS antenna and the minor Beezley mods, I'm not having ANY problems whatsoever! Was just trying to figure out if there was any major benefit left in fooling with this thing before I brave crawling into my attic crawlspace to place it.
Ken's design uses the same essential Radio Shack parts as an ordinary Radio Shack balun, probably only improved upon by the gold coating in the RS Gold version for whatever that's worth. The difference is the small coil he constructs out of the Belden wire and the Amidon core, which he has taken pains to match for this purpose.
I have a lot of respect for Ken for his prompt, imformative and honest reply and the pricing he puts on his efforts if you want to buy either the kit or the finished product.
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- I did e-mail Ken and got a nice reply - bartc 08:06:23 10/08/06 (0)
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