AG6IF Talented Balun HP for build HF Ham radio Sky Loop antenna 160m80m & 40-10

You are looking at a AG6IF Talented Balun HP (Higher Power). It is a homebrew skyloop HF ham radio 2.5 to 1 antenna Balun for Loop antennas. Add you loop wire of choice and your coax cable for rig connection, and enjoy DX It consists of: Custom designed Air core transformer using 12g stranded wire. Heavy duty ring terminals, all connections soldered.

Enclosure is a rugged electrical junction box. All pass-thru connections are press fit, and hot glued to keep out rain and weather. A gasket seals the lid, and held on with 4 corner screws. The coax connector is a SO239 for your PL259 50 ohm coax. The standard Talented Balun has been customer tested to 1200 watts.

This HP version is beefed up significantly. I have only tested to 100 Watts, No amplifier on premise, however, designed with extra heavy duty everything, to handle more power than the standard balun. Select a loop wire length from the list below from your supply, as large as will fit in your space.

Hang it from 3 or 4 points at least 6 feet high and enjoy DX I have included a picture showing the SWR and Theta sweep for a 40m wire using this balun from 6mhz to 30mhz, which was made with an AIM4170C analyzer. Select your wire length, and use this balun, it is ready for you to suspend from 3 trees, or 3 PVC pipes even, and remember to add your own coax. If you are looking at this, you are probably a ham, therefore, check my QRZ page for some diagrams and other info. There is also a review on Eham discussing the performance of this AG6IF Talented Balun. I have worked most of the world on this little setup, with the longest being Kenya at about 9,700 miles, using 40 watts.

My antenna height is only 6 feet at the corners and 14 feet at the Balun due to antenna restricted neighborhood. I have been asked'why dont I sell these?

Been a while since i reported in. I put up a loop at my home qth using one of your Talented Baluns.

Like the one i put up at my cottage. I have had it up here at home now two months. I have now worked 67 countries!

The loop is cut for 80 meters, it is up 25 feet. Sure works great on 60 meters also. But I can't think of any other suitable accolades. All of the local (Great Lakes Area) HF Nets are being heard like never before and the other Net members have been asking me if I moved to a new QTH. The neighborhood where my remote is has some very noisy electric transformers - but I have been able to deal with it since it is mostly on 75 meters - 40 on down are very enjoyable. In fact - I was even more amazed when I put my call out to the Route 66 special event station in Albuquerque, NM and the guy came back on the first try - and that was on 17 meters. A few days later on 20 meters - I worked a guy in Mississippi who had just received his General ticket and was using the /AG identifier. I was his first HF contact and both of us were excited. This loop - even at only 22' AGL - is definitely not a "cloud warmer" - in fact - about an hour ago, I worked EA8YB in the Canary Islands on 17 meters with a 59+ signal.

Wow - I was beginning to think that living in a mobile home park with no antennas allowed would spell the end of my HF activity. This is one antenna product that actually delivers and I will definitely be telling everyone I can about how well it works. I now use a new Kenwood Ts 590 with a ameritron Als 600 amplifier. I very rarely use the amp.

90 % of my dx contacts are barefoot with 100 watts and I receive s9 or better. When the signaled are weak I turn on the amp and run 650 watts no problem.

I got a report or 20 db over s9 this morning from Paris France on ten meters with 100 watts! Got a report earlier this week of 20 over from Saudi Arabia!

73 More customer reviews on eham, like this one for the standard talented balun. When compared to my 27-foot elevated Zero Five vertical, the loop could not compete other than being significantly quieter on receive.

However, I added a random length of wire to the loop to achieve 233 feet, which resulted in a shortened 80-meter version of this antenna. Doing so changed everything - dramatically. The loop will now often outperform the vertical on most bands, except 15M thru 10M.

Performance on 80M is very good, although on 40M thru 17M, the loop performs superbly in both transmit and receive. This is by far the best wire antenna I have used in the last 20-years. As reference, the loop is at 16-feet above ground and the base of the vertical is 18-feet over ground. I run a maximum of 1 KW into the AG6IF talented balun and never had a problem during short QSO's.

However, I did notice some saturation in the balun using the non-resonant loop during prolonged QSO's, resulting in my SWR's slowly increasing. In my opinion, the AG6IF Talented Balun is the best loop balun on the market. The secrete sauce is the 2.5:1 ratio.

Typical full-wave loop resonant impedance is about 123 ohms, which works out very close to 2.5 times 50. That little detail makes all the difference!

I have made two full wave loops with this excellent balun and booth out performed any other matching scheme I have tried, including various types of feed lines, tuners and other "made for loop" baluns. No question, just a thanks for this amazing loop! The quality is the best and I just can t beat the performance with any product, price be damned. I hang it high in my trees in a 4corner configuration and it performs like a boss. Thanks again, keep up the great work, and I m about to take a peek at these tube cubes. The balun works excellent with alternate loops wires also.. 030 wire setup made from aluminum TIG/MIG wire which is almost invisible, or the stainless. 030 wire, same but stronger. You can use also 18 or 16 gauge wire if you have some in the shack... It's not picky on diameter..

Just remember to cut the length as shown below. 2m = 7 feet 10m = 35 feet 17m = 48 feet 20m = 64 feet 40m = 128 feet 80m = 250-260 feet 160m = 520 feet - 550 feet This listing includes the Talented Balun only, you must add your copper loop wire, cut to a length from the list above. The item "AG6IF Talented Balun HP for build HF Ham radio Sky Loop antenna 160m80m & 40-10" is in sale since Saturday, December 20, 2014.

This item is in the category "Consumer Electronics\Radio Communication\Antennas\Ham, Amateur Radio Antennas". The seller is "vspeeds" and is located in Temecula, California.

This item can be shipped worldwide.

Brand: AG6IF-DIY
MPN: Does Not Apply
Frequency Band(s): HF
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Country of Manufacture: United States