Jim:
>This is exactly right -- except that common mode current is equally
>possible, and equally undesirable on parallel wire line as compared to
>coax, BECAUSE of the noise coupling issue, AND to prevent the feedline
>from radiating TX RF where it is more likely to couple to your
>neighbor's stereo rig, AND to prevent it from conducting common mode
>current to the shack, where it excites Pin 1 Problems.
If one reduces the coax common mode current using a common mode choke,
should one expect that the 'common mode' component of the current on the
open wire line above it going to the G5RV feedpoint is also reduced?
73, Tod, K0TO
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