I have a LW/Inv L that I will feed thru an auto tuner at the base, with radials. Was wondering if I should bother with forming a coaxial choke (12-15 turns at 6" diameter) before it enters the shack
I coil of coax with no ferrite is a waste of coax -- it will look inductive, the rest of the line will look capacitive, and the result will be lots of feedline current. You DO want a choke on the coa
I've been seeing all these articles about the Palomar, Hy-Gain, etc. baluns and ferrite cores are not good, like they advertise. So who is it that sells these special "Fair-Rite" cores? --Original Me
Read the tutorial. Info in Appendix One. 73, Jim K9YC baluns and ferrite cores are not good, like they advertise. So who is it that sells these special "Fair-Rite" cores? ____________________________
The choke I've described IS a common mode choke, and far better than anything you can buy. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
I don't know whether they're good or not good. There's no question that some of the sellers with long-time ham reputations (Amidon, Palomar) are charging a substantial markup over the price from one
Author: "Marlon K. Schafer" <ooe@odessaoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:54:16 -0800
I have a repeater site at an FM tower site. For years it's been a problematic location for us. Recently however, it's gotten quite a bit worse. After nearly two weeks of massive problems we finally w
Appendix One of what? Bill-W4BSG _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contestin
Link in my earlier post in this thread. 73, Jim _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://
Study my tutorial. That's why I did the research to learn what I wrote! 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing
Author: "Marlon K. Schafer" <ooe@odessaoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:02:55 -0800
OK, can do. Care to post a link to it? I missed the first part of this thread. Right now most of my time is spend dealing with that "stimulus" package. marlon ________________________________________
In my first post in this thread. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://li