[TenTec] Antenna Tuner

[Jim Brown K9YC]

On Fri, 2 May 2008 06:05:41 +0000, Marinus Loewensteijn wrote:

>IMHO I think that you look at things too much in isolation. To me 
>the use of chokes is only a patch method trying to minimize the 
>effects of multiple ground locations creating a lot of noise.

I look at things as they work in the real world, not in a 
theoretically ideal one. Ham antennas are almost never balanced, and 
BECAUSE they are not balanced, any common mode current on the 
feedline WILL couple to the antenna (including local noise). Most 
hams I know want to work weak signals. If you don't care about that, 
and only wnat to work your 20 over 9 buddies, don't use a choke. 

73,

Jim K9YC