----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Detweiler" <rdetweil@hotmail.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Station and AC Ground
> Just a side point,
>
> If you are having rf currents on the outside of your coax, there will be
> alot of problems, from RFI at the minimum to damaging the radio in the
> extreme. Ever feel a RF Burn?
>
> They make RF Current meters to detect that,
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
Yes, I've had some bad RF burns in a past life. Ouch ! Slow to heal also.
That's why I use such care never to allow RF to flow on the outside of my
Coax.
Takes a lot of work with chokes to accomplish that thoroughly.
You need a lot of choke impedance at RF frequencies.
But it works.
73 de Gary, AA2IZ
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