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Re: [TenTec] Tuner

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Tuner
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:55:15 -0700
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On 7/9/2013 2:14 PM, k6jek wrote:
Among other things, they recommend two baluns at the feed point, a hefty 4:1 
followed by a choke balun,

What is actually needed is a common mode choke with a VERY high common mode Z, sufficiently high that the common mode current is VERY small. That VERY high Z is what keeps it from frying with high power. It also kills both feedline radiation and reception.

BTW -- sub-culture is a close relative of "religious." :)

73, Jim K9YC


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