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Re: [RFI] Choke questions

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Subject: Re: [RFI] Choke questions
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:01:38 -0800
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On 1/21/2020 1:52 PM, David Eckhardt wrote:
I've found the super-flex insulated 'antenna wire' sold by Davis RF is
pretty good for winding larger ferrite cores (bifilar, quadfilar, ...).

No advantage to this over THHN, and I suspect THHN is cheaper. Also, I find it important to wind 2-wire chokes with two colors to make certain that turns don't get twisted (bad).

Also I've repeatedly used RG-142 Teflon coax for winding chokes.  It's high
power silver coated 50-ohm coaxial cable about the same outer diameter as
RG-58.

RG400 goes it one better -- it's like RG142, except that the center is stranded silver-coated copper. After discussions with N0AX and others, I settled on it for my choke designs on the basis of bend radius when winding on 2.4-in o.d. toroids.

Cookbook is here. http://k9yc.com/2018Cookbook.pdf

No connection to Davis RF other than use their products.

I like Davis a lot.

73, Jim K9YC

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