Sorry, I just can not understand why that should be so. I have managed to
heat very large toroid baluns to the point where wire insulation melted just
by driving a 100 watts or so into an extreme SWR. Perhaps you are assumming
a simple 1:1 choke balun? A 4:1 voltage balun can easily have extremely
high circulating currents within the balun that will cook it in a hurry
under high swr feedline conditions.
Don K7FJ
A balun wound on a toroid can have no more than 5% loss at 100 Watts.
Just relax and use your antenna. It might be hard to load on 40 and 20
Meters but it should work ok.
73 Karl K5DI
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