Category Archives: Baluns

Balanced to Unbalanced Line Transformers

Progress in the Workshop

Most of this year has slipped by without a new posting here! The orders keep coming and we keep making launchers, so we are keeping busy. Thanks for your support!

A lot of things have changed in this past year, one constant is making launchers and kits. We also have a few triple ratio balun kits, though the web page doesn’t indicate that. You can always drop us an email and ask about the balun kit availability. Note that the Triple Ratio Balun is really a Quad Ratio Balun as you can tap between the 50 and 12 ohm jack to get around 38 ohms!

We are preparing for the Christmas rush and making a large batch of parts. Make sure to get those orders in before December so that we can have a chance to get them shipped out before Christmas.

Materials and component prices continue to rise, we have not adjusted for inflation in some time. Don’t wait!

Just updated the website software, please let us know if there’s anything not working!

— AlanB, W6AKB

Holiday Season

The Holiday Season seems to come earlier each year. The elves are spending extra time in the workshop to finish up all the product orders and get them shipped out in time for Christmas. Make sure that all Christmas orders are in by November 30th, after that cutoff they will slide into January shipment.

We are also working on the website, so don’t be surprised at some changes and perhaps a bug or two. Let us know if you see a problem.

I’ve changed the Theme of the website, and I’m getting used to the newly updated software, so things are not finished yet. The site will continue to morph as we figure out what it can do and what we want it to look like. You can always get to the catalog pages with www.akbeng.com/catalog/ or contact us if you have a question or need something.

We made a small run of Triple Ratio Balun Kits, see Baluns. We will continue to ship balun kit orders through December.

Thanks for your support.

After Pacificon 2012

Pacificon was a fun weekend. We had a good fleamarket, Dawn had record breaking Cookie Lee sales, and I made a pair of presentations on the Arduino SWR Sweeper and Pneumatic Launchers.

It was great meeting new people, seeing old friends, and getting a dose of Ham Radio excitement.

Soon we will put the new Triple Ratio Balun kits back in the catalog. If anyone is really anxious, drop me an email via sales at akbeng dot com.