[TowerTalk] Current Choke for Ladder Line

[Tom Osborne]

Very true.

The OCF is an unbalanced antenna, compared to a center fed, which is 
balanced (supposedly). 73
Tom W7WHY



On 5/12/2015 1:14 PM, Bry Carling AF4K wrote:
> I would think that the OCF is FAR more likely to radiate off the feedline than a conventional
> dipole in most circumstances.
>
> On 12 May 2015 at 14:01, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTal wrote:
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>> Gentlemen,
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>> I have seen many articles how to build and/or buy common mode chokes for coax cables but I don't remember any articles how to build (or buy) and choke for a 400 ohm ladder line.
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>> The common mode current on a ladder line is causing the same problem as a common mode current on a coax. i have a choke between my tuner and radio which reduced noise quite good but wonder now how much RF power I radiate and signal I receive from the CM current in the feeder to my OCF dipole.
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>> Any ideas/comments?
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>> Hans - N2JFS