[TenTec] Balun Isolator

[Rick Denney]

Jim WA9YSD writes...

> An isolator or to obtain isolation or high inductance on the out
> side of the coax  feed line  is to wrap 6 to 8 turns around a
> plastic 5 lbs coffee can.  Some people call this an balun or current
> balun. Why?  This use of the term balun to me seams to be a miss
> application.  What should the term really be?

I've always called that a choke.

Rick, KR9D