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Cecil Moore[_2_] · September 6th 08, 02:46 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
Upon doing independent research, it turns out my theory is exactly the
same as your's but my terminology was reversed.

As proven a week ago by my definition quotations from
"The IEEE Dictionary".

But I still shy away from matching impedances with a "choke".
I would match impedances with a balun or RF transformer.

Jerry Sevick, W2FMI, says a *balun IS a choke* plus
a transmission line. He wrote in "Building and Using
Baluns and Ununs":

"If the writers had accepted the correct model for
these devices (given to us by Guanella and Ruthroff),
which shows that *they are really chokes* (lumped
elements) and configurations of transmission lines
(distributed elements), ..." (emphasis mine)
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com