Hello folks: I am considering making one or two chokes and using RG8X. After digging around on some of the contesting.com archives, I've seen several recommendations to wrap the 8X on 4 or 4.5 inch P
solid dialectric, tightly wound smaller pipe Rob, I use thousands of feet of the stuff and none of it is Belden. I consider it cheap coax, so I'm rough on it. I have 300 ft long hunks hanging from h
tnx Tom for ur very complete and valuable advice. I am dissatisfied with the performance of my ferriet on 160, as it is probably geared more for HF. It is a good time to give coax chokes a try. I thi
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Wouldn't this then be something like RG-58? The whole point of RG-8X, as I understand it, is that the dielectric is foamed, and, so lower loss, particularly at high frequencies. The impedance of a co
thanks Steve, i looked at the radioworks 8X solid stuff--they say it has same center as foam except the copper is tinned. I think the shield is tinned also. I'm also looking at using 213. On a 16" di