[TowerTalk] Fair rite materials for choke baluns

[Jim Brown]

On Tue,7/5/2016 7:34 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> IF your sloping  half wave dipole is  UN balanced...then why insert a CMC  at the feed point at all ??
> I would dump the CMC at the feedpoint, then perhaps  use a CMC  way downstream , like just
> before the coax meets the tower..or at the base of the tower..or both.

Nope! The first choke should ALWAYS be at the feedpoint. Additional 
chokes farther down the line can be used to prevent current induced on 
the feedline from causing grief in the shack (like with your rack full 
of un-necessary audio processing gear). :)

73, Jim K9YC