[RFI] Question about excess cable length & RFI

Greg Newberry greg at obillow.com
Tue Jan 9 12:21:39 EST 2018


Wow! What a beautiful set of boat anchors!!! I had an s-line ones, and a 
75A-3, but that 75A-4 and KWS-1 take the cake! That is winter time gear. 
You can heat your shack with it! :)

73,
Greg


On 1/9/2018 5:01 AM, Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> It's always nice to neaten things up, but EVERY TIME  I have neatened 
> up that mass of cables I have ended up with problems with the station 
> in Breckenridge. http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/boat1.htm ,
>
> Jim's tutorial would have been a great help back then.  Of course the 
> ferite cores weren't available.
>
> Such has not been the case here in Midland.
> http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/boat8.htm
>
> Here's a partial list 
> http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/boatanch.htm  Regrettably, I 
> have no photos of my earlier stations.
> I just let the excess hang. Often, I just pull enough out of the 
> original bundle to reach.  I've not had to resort to chokes in any 
> leads, except the common mode chokes in feedlines.
>
> If it aint broke, don't fix it!  "IF NEEDED" those chokes work great.
>
> 73, Roger (K8RI)



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