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Subject: [AMPS] Low Pass Filter
From: rakefet@rakefet.com (Vic Rosenthal)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:18:32 -0800
Chuck Counselman wrote:
> 
> >  By running the coax through a wad of steel wool inside a mailing tube!
> >
> Can anyone post quantitative info on this method, e.g., for a given
> diameter and length tube, packed with how much of what grade steel wool,
> how many dB of attenuation as a function of frequency?

Well, this isn't very quantitative, and I don't remember where I saw it, but
someone recently DID try this in various forms and found it to be essentially
worthless.

73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA

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