On 1/26/2012 4:08 PM, DAVID CUTHBERT wrote: > No balun is needed. What you mean, I think, is that no IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMATION is needed. Yet another example of why I object to the word "balun." And I agree that no impedance transformation is needed at the antenna as long as some sort of matching is used in the shack.
But a common mode choke IS a good thing, because it keeps RF off the coax. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
