[TowerTalk] Using Split Beads

[dan hearn]

A small air gap causes considerable loss in inductance,Herb. You would
be ahead to get beads with a larger hole or possibly use a short section
of smaller coax. Could be RG8X if that will take the power you use. You
might consider removing a bit of the vinyl covering and then tape
overall. 73, Dan, N5AR

Herb Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> I ordered some material 43 split beads to place on rg8 coax.  It appeared
> to me that the coax had an outside diameter of 3/8 of an inch, so that
> was the size of split bead I ordered.  Now that I have the beads, the
> inside "hole" of the split beams is a bit small for the outside diameter of
> the coax.
> 
> So, my question is, is it essential that both halves of the split bead
> actually touch each other, to fully encirle the coax, to work optimilly,
> or will they still be effective, even if there is a small gap between the
> two halves of the split bead?
> 
> Any comments would be appreciated.
> 
> Herb - KG6OK
> 
> herbr@netcom.com
> 
> 
> 
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