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Re: [TowerTalk] choke / balun design needed

To: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com, towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] choke / balun design needed
From: TexasRF--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Reply-to: TexasRF@aol.com
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:02:40 -0400
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In a message dated 4/27/2015 11:41:23 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jim@audiosystemsgroup.com writes:

On  Mon,4/27/2015 6:50 AM, Alex Malyava wrote:
> What would be the bestest  design for choke or balun to be used with 
dipole
> or OCF  dipole?
> Like what type of core, number of turns or number of  beads?

k9yc.com/RFI-Ham.pdf

See the Choke Cookbook and text that  precedes it.

An off-center fed antenna is inherently poorly balanced,  so it puts a 
high common mode current on the feedline, which in turn  places a high 
common mode voltage across any choke. It is well known that  even very 
good common mode chokes are likely to fry (fail destructively)  when used 
with even moderate power levels. You MIGHT get away with it at  100W, but 
at some higher power level it WILL break.

73, Jim  K9YC

So, is there ANY solution to providing a feedline choke for an OCF dipole  
used with high power?
 
73,
Gerald K5GW
 

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