Topband: Choke Construction Info Needed

Tom W8JI w8ji at w8ji.com
Thu Jul 26 16:22:06 PDT 2012


My Mistake:

> To get 30 watts of heat with 226 ohms reactance, Q would have down near
> unity. No one makes a coil that bad.

I misplaced a decimal. Q would have to be near ten in the coil with 226 ohms 
reactance and 1500 watts to make 30W heat, not near 1.

The other numbers are correct. A Q of ~200 is about 1.5 watts heat with 226 
ohms reactance, so heat isn't the issue. SWR change is. 



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