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Old April 6th 10, 02:26 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Owen Duffy Owen Duffy is offline
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Default velocity factor, balanced line

Bob wrote in
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On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:16:56 GMT, Owen Duffy wrote:

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I have had sucess with placing a balun of a string of ferrite cores
over the line.


That means literally threading some suitable ferrite toroidal cores over
the transmission line you are measuring.

If you add a separate balun between the analyser and the cable under test,
you introduce an unknown component that will probably disturb your
readings.

Owen