I screwed up in an earlier post. I had matching transformers on the brain and what I described with 1-10mH was for a receiver headend bandpass amplifier.
I was laughing (out loud)... how could you wind a 10mH choke with 16 or 14 gauge wire. It would weigh somewhere over 22 pounds. Now, try to hang that from your center insulator.?
It's easy to forget that receiving and transmitting aren't always reciprocal.
Keep the spirit, Bob, of experimenting, building, testing - just be careful with high places, hot soldering irons and linear amplifier plate voltages.
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On Friday, September 20, 2024 at 04:08:34 PM EDT, Bob Doolittle W1CTC <w1ctc@...> wrote:
It's a cheap balun. I'm going to get a better one and see what the difference is. It does seem to have less noise.
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