At 10:27 AM -0600 1/11/03, Jon Ogden NA9D wrote:
"...a little off of towertalk, but a good thread. Thanks, Steve, for
the indulgence!"
The large number of Towertalk posts relating to ferrite-core
common-mode chokes, baluns, and transformers (which often are
different names for the same thing) says that this is a mainstream
topic. Every ham with a tower needs at least one ferrite-core
choke/balun/transformer (and if anyone doesn't think so, I'll try to
educate him).
The number of posts about burned-out and broken ferrite
chokes/baluns/transformers has also been substantial. Ferrite is
expensive and worth salvaging; yet few of us knew why, how, or how
well it could be done; so I found this thread very worthwhile. I
hope that it was not just indulgence that kept Steve from squelching
it.
73 de Chuck, W1HIS
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