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Review Summary For : DX Engineering Baluns
Reviews: 67MSRP: 29.95-79.95
Description:
High Power Transmission Line Transformers and Baluns with Patent Pending Maxi-Coreā„¢ Technology
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.dxengineering.com/search/department/antennas/part-type/baluns-ununs-and-chokes/product-line/dx-engineering-maxi-core-20-baluns-and-feedline-chokes?SortBy=Default&SortOrder=Ascending&autoview=SKU
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W1FUU Rating: 2013-01-17
This is a quality product that works well. Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I recently purchased a DXE-BAL050H10AT 1:1 balun on the advice received by Dx Engineering. When I received the balun, I opened it and inspected it. It was truly well made to commercial specs. I installed it on my 126' 80/20 meter fan dipole with a 32' element for 20 meters and fed it with about 100' of RG 213 coax. With my tuner, I can work all bands. I have been receiving very good signal reports by most stations that I work. I would recomend this balun to anyone that uses a tuner and dipole combination. Also it is a good choice if you run any amount of high power because this balun can take it.
K1BZ Rating: 2013-01-05
Top Notch Time Owned: 6 to 12 months.
I have nearly 1 of each ratio & use them for experementing from QRP to QRO. Never a problem. Commercial quality from my observations. /DL
W8CAR Rating: 2012-11-15
excellent product Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I ordered this on the web on Sunday and it arrived on Tuesday ( I live in Ohio home of DX Engineering) Great service. I got the 4 to 1 balun to use on a beam. In a bench test the SWR with a 200 ohm load was flat from 1.8Mhz till past 70Mhz with zero reactance ( I stopped testing at 70MHZ). The antenna is back up and the balun works great. A peak inside the box shows heavy duty, quality components assembled correctly.
Very happy with this product.
Dan W8CAR
NF4A Rating: 2012-10-15
excellent service Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Order was received on time and as promised....installed immediately so I could be in the WPX RTTY contest.....burned up a cheaper balun trying to load my 40m on 30m to work a rare dx station......don't think this one will burn up ;)

VE3UPZ Rating: 2011-12-17
DXE 1:1 10 k Balun Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
Ive been an amature since 1992 and have had alot of Baluns from everything to do with long wires and beams . when i decided to put a 20 meter monobander here i was looking at the brandX baluns from the antenna manufacturer, and even though they suggested its power handling at 4 kw i was sceptical as ive burned alot of such rated baluns out before .. so at the suggestion of the dx engineering associate i spoke to on the phone at the time of my order i picked the DXE1:1 10 kw balun .. upon arrival i was curious and opened it to have a look at its construction .. this thing is very well built and will possibly handle even more than its rating .. ive thrown almost 2500 watts at it through the dummy load and it still keeps working the size realy says it all and although i was concerned about the large case being inside the gamma rods on my beam when i assembled the antenna, its functioning perfect . if your looking to use a beam with high power or dipoles for that matter, this product is up to the task .. please unclude the mounting kit though guys .. the extra 25 bucks wasnt worth the cost of a piece of aluminum and two stainless steel hose clamps .but they do make a mounting kit to fit just about everything .. in summary a good high powered balun where others i have tried failed miserably .. thanks alot

VE3-UPZ Randy
WA2ILB Rating: 2011-11-15
Great Product Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
About two months ago, I decided to get back on HF after a few years of in-activity on the HF bands.

I have been an amateur for over 52 years. I was an electronics engineer for AT&T Bell Labs and knew Gerry, W2FMI, who wrote the definitive books on baluns.

I put up an end-fed Zepp for 40 meters (66 feet) and used the DX Engineering 1:1 10 kW choke balun (bigger is better) to feed the 33 feet of 600 Ohm open wire feed line. From the balun into the shack was about 35 feet of LMR-400 coax to the tuner.

It works great on 40 and 15. To my surprise it is a very credible antenna for 75 meters. It is probably acting as an inverted L on 75. I am able to maintain my schedules throughout the Northeast on 75 in the mornings.

You would have a very hard time finding a better balun either in construction or performance.
K8JHR Rating: 2011-09-16
Good stuff Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I have used a DX-E 4:1 current balun with my DX-E 43-foot multiband monopole antenna with good results. I now use their 4:1 Un-Un designed for this same type of antenna with equally good results. I feel they are both well made and are good value for the money. They seem to work well and have low insertion loss (as measured by my Elmer using some rather sophisticated equipment he owns...) and appear to work as advertised (according to both my MFJ and RigExpert antenna analyzers.)

---- James - K8JHR ----
K2JX Rating: 2011-05-20
Excellent Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.

I'm using a 66' end fed wire for my secondary antenna in addition to a 43 foot vertical by DXE.
After fooling around with different matching methods and home brew current baluns I decided to order a Balun from DXE. The one I ordered is made for an end fed wire used with a tuner in the shack. I mounted the balun on 2x4 pressure treated post in concrete, drove an 8' copper ground rod close to the post. I feed the input to the the Balun with 15' of RG-213U and ground one side of the balun to the ground rod with 1" braid terminated with crimped connectors on each end.

So, how does it work, well perfectly, the Balun handles 5KW CONT, 10KW ICAS. No way can my 700 watt amp swamp this Balun. The construction is excellent the materials used first rate. I can easily tune the wire on all bands without RFI in the shack. Tune up is quick and easy with very small adjustment excursions of the tuner. Big difference in receive, with one side of the balun grounded, static is drained off before it gets into the receiver. This product performs exactly as advertised, is very well made and worth every penny of it's $129 cost.
W7VO Rating: 2011-04-13
Expensive, but worth it Time Owned: 0 to 3 months.
I just had a Hygain BN-86 on my TH6 fail right at the beginning of the WPX phone contest. I just replaced it with the 1:1 balun from DX Engineering, which was about $120 with shipping.
after receiving it I took the liberty to take the balun apart and discovered that they are very well engineered and durable. My only gripe is that for mounting on the bottom of the boom you need to seal the edges with a non corrosive RTV. If you mount the balun on the top, you don't need to do anything. There also appears to be a MOV, or some sort of transient protector across the output terminals as an added bonus.
Construction consists of aluminum chassis, large square ferrite with mil spec silver plated coax wrapped around it, and porcelain connectors. The SO-239 is silver plated, and all hardware is stainless. Very nice!
KC8Y Rating: 2010-08-23
excellent balun Time Owned: more than 12 months.
I have the model: DXE-BAL-200-H11-CT 4:1 10KW Balun and it performs super. I use a 135-ft dipole, fed with about 45-ft ladder line. Then I connect the other side with about 15-ft coax cables (connect cables through my house wall-via a long 8-inch F/F SO239 conector).
I vary the antenna with my old 3KW tuner, work bands 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10. To bad this site doesn't allow HIGHER ratings than a 5.
Never use more than 100-watts on PSK/CW/SSB/SSTV and
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