Balun Output Impedance

 Well,

Lots of discussions about my baluns and the test setup, a common question seems to be how to measure the output impedance.

Here's my way:

Fun, dont you think?

I've finally sacked him for being useless!

Well,

You may remember the trauma I sustained trying to stop the back of the house and the sitting area below getting constantly covered in bird ****.

At the bottom of this post was where I recruited the services of Oliver the Owl:

http://g0mgx.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/top-band-what-happens-there-then.html

Oliver has proved to be quite useless apart from serving as a great vantage point for the birds to perch... so today I have finally got round to getting rid of him.

Instead I asked on one of the eHam forums here:

http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,90940.0.html

and as a result have got some mirror finished plastic stuff and some garden twine and have ended up with this:

If you look closely you will see that there are five shiny mirrored things suspended between the two antennas.

Time will tell, but I think I might have cracked it!

Sneaky, egh?