On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:57:33 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote:
>the shack was instantly flooded with RF,
The fundamental cause of your "RF in the shack" is common mode
current on the feedline. The cure for that is a good common mode
choke. Unfortunately, it isn't practical to choke ladder line, you
must wind the choke using coax on one or more ferrite cores.
To understand this, study http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf
and the Power Point presentation about Coaxial Chokes on
http://audiosystemsgroup.com/publish
73,
Jim Brown K9YC
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