The following happened to me a few years ago as a brand new ham in my pre-Elecraft days and I wonder if anyone can explain to me the details. I apparently had high swr and exceeded the rating on my balun. It suffered accordingly but didn't completely fail. The result was when I transmitted cw on 40m an internal fuse would blow in the stereo which was on in the next room room. It took two go rounds before I caught onto the cause and effect... A new & better balun cured the problem.
At the time I had a Zepp (135') and 4:1 balun at the house entrance. I assume the ruined balun was emitting all sorts of RF that the stereo amplifier picked up, tried to amplify, and couldn't. But I don't understand exactly what would make it draw that much current. Can someone enlighten me? By the way, since then I put up a dipole, halfwave for 160m, about 200' behind the house. That's what I should have begun with. Thanks! Mike ab3ap _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
