[TowerTalk] W0IYH Feed line Choke Performance

[Pete Smith]

At 06:17 AM 8/20/03 -0700, Jim Lux wrote:
>Let's consider why you're doing all this choking in the first place:
>a) to reduce the perturbations from feedlines on the antenna pattern.  In
>this case, breaking the line up into short isolated segments (like guy
>wires) that are sufficiently "out of band" should work nicely.
>b) to reduce imbalance.  Choking at the feed point works here, provided you
>have already done a) so that you don't get common mode induced currents
>coming in from the near field.

In receiving applications, there is also the sub-set of concerns due to 
pickup on the shield of the coax destroying the directionality of antennas 
like pennants, flags, etc.  ON4UN has an interesting device in his book on 
low-band DXing (see page 7-19), involving two bead chokes with a ground 
between them, placed at least 5 meters from the feedpoint of the receiving 
antenna.  He claims this offers a very substantial attenuation of common 
mode currents (approximately 70 dB).

73, Pete N4ZR
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