I agree with Chuck, Laird, formerly Steward, is an established magnetics company.
Jack Smith of Clifton labs uses them in some of this designs. http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/easy_broadband_transformer.htm You should evaluate them. 73, Mike N2MS ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck <charle...@msn.com> To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:28:50 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Topband: Laird ferrites On 6/29/2012 8:07 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > Other than those samples, I've never gotten a thing from Fair-Rite, > but they have been an excellent corporate citizen, and they have been > quite willing to sell directly to hams for group purchases at the same > prices they sell to distributors for the same quantities.. Why would > we want to bite the hand that feeds us to buy virtually unknown parts > from a company we've never heard of? 73, Jim Brown K9YC > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 > QSB QSB - hw? BK I'm quite happy with the test results for Laird #35 toroids. The price is much less that Fair Rite for a comparable part. >From my point of view, there's no need to stick with IBM, GM, etc. Chuck _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK