Topband: Feedpoint of short RX vertical

[Tracey Gardner]

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 5:24 AM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> 
wrote:

It DOES make sense to decouple the feedline. I've never heard of a
"braid breaker." Under NO conditions should you open the shield == that
prevents the shield from being a shield. The good ways to decouple the
feedline are 1) a good transformer, a good common mode choke, and
radials. See Chapter 8 of http://k9yc.com/RFI-Ham.pdf for winding
guidelines for the choke.

73, Jim K9YC



Hello Jim

The term "braid Breaker" has been in use over on this side of the pond for 
more years than I care to remember.
It is just another term for a common mode choke and it doesn't actually 
"break" the braid.
There is a Wiki entry for "braid breaker" and that contains a reference to 
"The Radio amateur's guide to EMC"
by Robin Page-Jones (G3JWI), published by the Radio Society of Great Britain 
in 1992, so that gives you
some idea of the age of the term.

73s Tracey G5VU