I've never understood the value of a feedpoint choke for a typical
ground mounted vertical antenna, Inverted-L or otherwise. Putting the
choke at the base of the vertical section doesn't change the fact that
the coax typically runs right next to the radials, thereby either
experiencing coupling to the radials or simply being an extended radial
itself, depending upon how you want to look at it. If you put the
feedline choke out at the edge of the radial field it's not going to do
any good anyway since for typical radials that are roughly 1/4
wavelength long that's a current node.
I suppose there might be some useful decoupling effect of putting a
choke a half wavelength away from the feedpoint, but even then I'm not
sure what it is.
Anybody want to take a crack at explaining why it's worth the bother?
Dave AB7E
On 11/17/2018 10:45 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
No.
On 11/17/2018 7:40 PM, Jamie WW3S wrote:
I have an Inv L for 160, currently fed with a bulkhead SO-239
attached to a radial plate.....is there some sort of Balun/feedpoint
choke that may work better?
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