Topband: RG-179 Coax

Thomas ac7a at cox.net
Fri Feb 14 09:23:40 EST 2020


Hi Jim,

I use Belden 9221 miniature 75-Ohm coax for my receive antenna chokes. It is very flexible making it easy to wind over the torroid core. I recently bought 100' of 9221 on ebay for a very reasonable price. It is readily available there and seems to do the job.

Thomas - ac7a

> On February 14, 2020 at 4:56 AM Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com mailto:jim at audiosystemsgroup.com > wrote:
> 
> 
>     On 2/13/2020 11:40 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
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>         > > I am making some receive antennas and the coax will be for the choke
> >         that goes through a torriod.
> > 
> >     >     As Mike understands, RG6 doesn't work. See pages 3 of
>     http://k9yc.com/2018Cookbook.pdf
> 
>     73, Jim K9YC
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