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Reviews For: Palomar Engineers 49:1 Unun

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Review Summary For : Palomar Engineers 49:1 Unun
Reviews: 2MSRP: $129
Description:
49:1 Unun for Half Wave End Fed Antennas
Product is in production
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# last 180 days Avg. Rating last 180 days Total reviews Avg. overall rating
1221.5
W8MQW Rating: 2022-11-07
The 36:1 Unun does not meet specifications Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
The SWR is less than the specified 2:1 only below 2.7 MHz (but pops up again below 188 kHz). It rises to 2.57:1 at 4 MHz.

The SWR bottoms out to 1.23:1 at 419 kHz. It has a respectable SWR of 1.25:1 on 630m.
NT4I Rating: 2022-09-14
Disappointing Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
I have been using this Unun for almost a year at 200 watts and it worked fine until I applied about 700 watts SSB. Although it is rated for 1000 watts, it cannot take anymore than about 500 watts. I feel tricked and deceived that the 1,000 watt rating is nonsense and an embellishment.
To be clear, the device is advertised and sold as a 1,000 watt unit and when I used about 700 watts SSB, the core overheated and the SWR sky rockets. Also, this was on a resonate 160 meter inverted L antenna, not some complex impedance non resonant antenna.

Udate: September 14th, 2022
I emailed Palomar over a week ago and explained my disappointment and suggested that (giving them the benefit of the doubt) they erroneously sent me a lower power model instead of the 1KW unit I PAID for.
You guessed it! No correspondence or reply from Palomar!
I would suggest you proceed with caution when considering purchasing from Palomar...