[TowerTalk] If you had a choice

[Jim Brown]

On 10/16/2012 2:53 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> It would be interesting to know how the antenna would have performed without
> feedline distortion by using with a choke-balun, however you did the test
> correctly following the manufacture's instructions.

My educated guess is that the primary effects of a serious common mode 
choke would be to prevent the nulls from being filled in by common mode 
coupling from  the transmission line. I would not expect to see the 
forward gain affected.

73, Jim K9YC