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Re: Topband: Choke Construction Info Needed

To: "DAVID CUTHBERT" <telegrapher9@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Choke Construction Info Needed
From: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Reply-to: Tom W8JI <w8ji@w8ji.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:22:06 -0400
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My Mistake:

> To get 30 watts of heat with 226 ohms reactance, Q would have down near
> unity. No one makes a coil that bad.

I misplaced a decimal. Q would have to be near ten in the coil with 226 ohms 
reactance and 1500 watts to make 30W heat, not near 1.

The other numbers are correct. A Q of ~200 is about 1.5 watts heat with 226 
ohms reactance, so heat isn't the issue. SWR change is. 

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