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I am the original poster of the question about the current-choke effect of
underground coax. I mentioned HF bands, with multiple coax runs (and control cable runs) inside a 3" PVC conduit about 10" (top of PVC) underground. The conduit is about 50' long. This is probably a very common situation. Do I understand the sum of the comments correctly? - A single buried coax (not inside a conduit) will experience a significant current choke effect. - Multiple coaxes (and other cables) inside a non-metalic conduit will experience widely varying effects, depending on lots of parameters that would be difficult to quantify in common usage. One of my coax runs is for a half-sloper that is not very well matched at any frequency. I detect no RF feedback into the shack (checking with the little MFJ RF current meter, among other things). I had been wondering if I should place current choke(s) on the coax on the tower, but I gather there is probably no need for them. Bill - W2WO |
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