[Elecraft] Slightly Unbalanced dipole?

[Walter Underwood]

It is reasonable to put a choke at the antenna with open wire line. Open wire isn’t magic, it can carry common mode currents, too. Both wires high, both wires low, and that is common mode.

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
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http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 3:42 PM, Al Lorona <alorona at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> By the way, whenever Jim says, "...a very good common mode choke at the feedpoint of an antenna...," he means an antenna fed with coax. For the rest of us, of course, that choke would (should) go at the output of the antenna tuner, whether in the shack or close by.
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> Al  W6LX
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