[Amps] placement of RF choke bypass cap.

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 23 18:55:41 PDT 2010


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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:33:02 -0400, Roger <sub1 at rogerhalstead.com>
wrote:

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>Even with capacitance taken into account the position (edge or centered) 
>should make no difference.

REPLY:

I respectfully disagree. With the edge of the disk connected to the
wire, NO RF has to flow THROUGH the disk to reach the far end of the
antenna, thus the disk acts only as a capacitor tacked on to the wire.

With the disk connected at it's center, the RF has to flow through the
disk to reach the far end of the wire. It still acts as a capacitor,
but also as a conduction path for the RF flowing to the far end of the
wire.

73, Bill W6WRT


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