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April 25th 06, 06:35 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
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Will a 4:1 current balun transform a random impedance Z1 to Z2 where
|Z2|=|Z1|/4? I know Roy pointed out that this won't work for a voltage
balun...

No, it won't either. The amount of error with any balun type depends on
the balun construction. You'll just have to build one and see what it does.

It would be interesting to know what your antenna Z looks like on each
band at the input to the existing balun. That is, what do you get when
you connect your antenna to the balun output and the analyzer to the
balun input?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL