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Re: Topband: Elimination of Treadmill RFI on 160 meters

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Subject: Re: Topband: Elimination of Treadmill RFI on 160 meters
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 15:18:54 -0800
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On Fri,1/30/2015 2:49 PM, Jim Garland wrote:
But, like I said, maybe I'm not following something.

Right -- you are not. First, you don't understand what common mode is. Second, you don't understand the choke. A ferrite common mode choke STARTS OUT as a lossy inductor, but one with shunt capacitance. This forms a very low Q resonant circuit (typically 0.4), and thus a very broad resonant peak. It is the resistance around resonance that forms an effective common mode choke.

I've discussed this in considerable detail in tutorial form in k9yc.com/RFI-Ham.pdf and some of that material has been added to the ARRL Handbook. There's also a pdf of the slides that go with an RFI tutorial that I've done for several ham clubs. It's on my website -- k9yc.com/publish.htm I suggest that you study these two pieces. It's far too much work (and probably boring for many readers of this list) for me to post it here.

73, Jim K9YC
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