[TowerTalk] Balun Recommendation

[Steve Hunt]

Gerald,

If the addition of the choke reduces the CM current to a negligible 
amount, you have restored balance to the system.

Did that put the chicken first, or the egg first? I don't know!

Steve G3TXQ


On 20/04/2012 13:18, TexasRF at aol.com wrote:
> Hi All, at the risk of really showing some ignorance, a question:
>
> If the choke is doing a good job and located at the feedpoint, isn't the
> common mode circuit quite short?
>
> Seems that the common mode current is the cause of the feed point imbalance
>   rather than the imbalance causing the common mode current. Chicken first
> or egg  first?
>
> 73,
> Gerald K5GW
>