Thread: Rule of Thumb for coax chokes
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Old August 3rd 06, 04:39 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Rule of Thumb for coax chokes
Reg Edwards wrote:
A hank of a bunched number of turns is quite good enough as a coaxial
choke.

I got the 1/4WL and 1/2WL self-resonant points confused
in my mind. A "bunched number of turns" causing 1/2WL
self-resonance would function very poorly as a choke.
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73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp
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