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Re: Topband: Commond mode choke for Beverage

To: Eduardo Araujo <er_araujo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Commond mode choke for Beverage
From: Filipe Lopes <ct1ilt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:07:48 +0200
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Thanks for this testing suggestiong Eddie, it will sure be a good way to
check if it works or not.

73's Filipe Lopes
CT1ILT - CR6K
F4VPX - TM3M

2015-10-12 20:14 GMT+02:00 Eduardo Araujo <er_araujo@yahoo.com>:

> >> With these ferrites I ask the same question, should I put the choke
> close
> >> to the 9:1 Balun or near the switching box and how many turns? some bevs
> >> have the feed point at +- 60m away from the switching box.
>
> My two cents......It was interesting during the installation of the last
> beverage, we have only #31 core, so we placed it at the receiver side.
> Disconnecting the coax at the bev feed point and shorting the coax there,
> many AM broadcast stations could be heard and some of them strong,
> indicating that even though one choke was at the receiver side the coax was
> acting like an antenna. The coax was just lying on the ground and is 40/50
> mts long.
> When we got more cores and placed one choke at that place close to the
> short, repeating the test before and after most broadcast vanished and only
> one could be heard very week.
> '73.... Eddie, LU2DKT
>
>
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