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Re: [TenTec] Balun Isolator

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Balun Isolator
From: Rick Denney <rick@rickdenney.com>
Reply-to: Rick Denney <rick@rickdenney.com>, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:47:01 -0400
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Jim WA9YSD writes...

> An isolator or to obtain isolation or high inductance on the out
> side of the coax  feed line  is to wrap 6 to 8 turns around a
> plastic 5 lbs coffee can.  Some people call this an balun or current
> balun. Why?  This use of the term balun to me seams to be a miss
> application.  What should the term really be?

I've always called that a choke.

Rick, KR9D



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