[TowerTalk] How to mount choke balun?

[Tom Osborne]

Bill Coleman wrote:
 
> >On 11/4/01 12:07 AM, Rod Elliott at elliottr@hurontel.on.ca wrote:
 
> >Also, any suggestions for the best way to attach the coil to the boom?
> 
> Wind the coil on a piece of 4" PVC pipe. Make the pipe a few >inches longer than the coil. Use a U-bolt to hold the PVC pipe >to the boom.

I may be wrong, but I thought the coils need to be at least 8" in
diameter to work.  Isn't winding RG8 in a 4" circle kinda
stressing it a bit?  73
Tom W7WHY

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