I'm putting up a multi-band (20,17,15,12,10 & 6) quad antenna (2 el Gem spider
quad) and will be feeding each band wire with a separate feedline through a
switchbox (Ameritron). Each feedline between the switch & antenna will be a 1/4
wave stub of RG62 or RG11 cut to length. At each feedpoint, I intend to put a
ferrite bead balun on the coax to help minimize wire interaction.
While I think the right bead mix is #77 or #43 to suppress 10 - 50 MHz, what I
don't know is how much impedence do I need and thus, how many beads to put on
the line. Somewhere along the way, I read that the balun impedence should be 5x
the load impedence.
If the quad is at 100 - 130 ohms, should I design for 600 ohms of balun
impedence? Why 5x and is this a valid rule of thumb?
73's
Steve KD7NTK
kd7ntk@arrl.net
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