[TenTec] Balanced Tuners

[George, W5YR]

Stuart, Roy Lewallen rather violently objects to the solenoidal theory. His
data prove to the contrary.

I believe Roy . . .

73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
"In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre at arlut.utexas.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Balanced Tuners


> Ken,
> About your tuner, it does have the cable RF choke like the original paper
> shows?
> Although not a "balun", that does choke off RF current from the outside of
> the shield of the input coaxial connection to the rig.  The original paper
> is quite correct about using a solenoid wound coax cable as the optimum
> coaxial cable choke, and not scramble winding coax.
>
> However, I wonder if the most compact and equally effective 1:1 cable
choke
> is not the use of cores on the length of coax, which then can be about 14
> inches or less, (depending on the cores used).
> 73,
> Stuart
> K5KVH
>
>
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