Re: Topband: Fw: Re: Coax Choke Balun

["Rick Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>]

Paul Christensen wrote:
>> Would a length of RG-8X sufficient for looping through the ferrite
>> cores easily handle full legal power on 1.8Mhz?
>

I have routinely used baluns made with RG-58 at full legal power
on 160, 80, and 40 for many years, with no overheating problems,
although I don't run RTTY.  RG-8X would have even more safety margin.

Rick N6RK

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