James, your friend may be a friend but disregard his words.
I use two RF Chokes on my OCF (in addition to its balun) and 3 of them on my
160m Inverted-L because it has a long run of coax and part of the way is in
the air. If you run high power, CMC can get back in that way too. I
ALWAYS have one just before entering the house.
73
Rick, DJ0IP
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Richards
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 2:38 AM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Tuning Amp on 17 meters
"Robert Mcgraw" <rmcgraw@blomand.net> wrote:
there may be current flowing on the
> outside of the coax.
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Yes, I routinely use a choke balun on my dipoles and
vertical ground plane antennas. My local friends think
I am Mr. Overkill suggesting I should only use one if I
see a problem like RF in the shack, but I use one anyway.
I cannot see how it could hurt.
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