However, these days we generally are going unbalanced-amplifier to balanced-antenna load. Needed to match a balanced (push-pull) amplifier to an unbalanced load About the word “balun”….It means “balanced-to-unbalanced” Guanella (a Swiss engineer in 1944) Also, I’ve included ‘background’ info, which I thought may help in understanding.Ģ.
Guanella-balun with the grounds in different places a similar statementįor Ruthroff-ununs cannot be made). Types of Guanella-baluns or ununs (a Guanella-unun is just a The 1:1 Guanella-balun is the basic building block for other types of “current-balun”, “isolation-balun”, and “choke-balun” I’d suggest Three other commonly used names to describe this balun are: Transmission-Line-Transformer (TLT) known as a 1:1 Guanella-balun The primary reason for this work is to explain how a particular In the spirit of the hobby, I pass along what I have learned and don’t profess to know all the answers.ġ. How a 1:1 Guanella-Balun (Current-Balun) Operates
