Or if he has a connector at the base, then adding a choke is easy, either with
slack in the coax, or a connector used inline version.
On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:50, Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk> wrote:
> K8RI wrote:
>>> Is it a good idea to create a coil of coax in or near the base of the tower,
>>> run through ferrite toroids? I do this at the base of my vertical, but I'm
>>> not sure if it's as useful for a horizontal antenna.
>>
>> I have a one of these current chokes/baluns on each of my sloping
>> dipoles. On 75 I still had so much feedback that all the LEDs in the
>> shack would light by the time I reached a KW out let alone 1.5 KW. I
>> added a second choke in the 75 meter feed line at the tower and it
>> cleaned it up to where I can not detect any common mode voltage making
>> it back to the shack. If you need one, use one, if you don't then save
>> your money.
>
> The problem may be that he needs to decide right now, while he is
> installing the coax.
>
> On the other hand, large ferrite cores will be very expensive imports in
> ZL, so it won't be cost-effective to scatter lots of them around "just
> in case".
>
> One option might be to look up K9YC's recipes for ferrite chokes using
> the big #31 clamp-on beads, and make the air-cored coil at the base of
> the tower when installing the coax. Very little is lost by doing that
> much in advance.
>
> Later, if a "serious" common-mode choke does turn out to be necessary at
> the base of the tower, then simply snap the big bead onto the coil that
> is already there.
>
>
> --
>
> 73 from Ian GM3SEK
> http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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