I've yet to begin putting up my antenna which i decided to take dow as I'm convinced in order to discover the problems I was having with my swr,dropped output on higher frequencys and other issues that I won't get into until I start over and ask and hope to receive suggestions on how to rectify them.
One problem handled at a time. The only problem I didn't. have was bothering nabour's with rfi. This is why I not only decided to save the I max 2000 i purvhrsed to replace the a99 buy will save it for a backup
I took down my a99 and purchesed a new one ss I began tuning the rings and everything got so out of control that i became overwhelming trying to correct it.
But this is about the choke. And if one uses the search of this site to check out the information on chokes (ugly Balun). Most responses are it's not rocket science but with many writing that it must be constructed to such exacting mesurments that until I myself can understand how to construct and install it will not be a concideration for my antenna unless it's absolutely needed.
And if I'm correct in most cases its not a necessity but an item that will improve aspects of one antenna and how it stops or lessons rf from returning to it source (transmitter) snf in some cases it doesn't wotk and others it will.
My op about the choke has yielded as many different ways to make one then as the ssme amount of people who answered the op. Who's correct? Who's somewhat accurate and who's totally wrong?
I don't know as there's no one definitive directions. Almost everyone has different amount of turns. Different diamiters for different types of 11 (50 onm) meter coax.
Until my research convinces me that by putting all the information together and can trust myself that I'm doing it the correctly , I will leave this out of the equation and take care of the important aspects of my antenna install and doing what I need to do in order to get my swr/ref power at an acceptable or brtter than exceptable level, the chokes on the back burner.
I hope my new (starting all over fron A-Z) will go well enough that an rf choke won't be needed.
I'm not even going to ask how to construct a choke as you can read all the different answers to a single question for yourself. What some exsplan as not rocket science others certainly seem to br turning it into a job for a physicist or atleast a mathamatic's professor. Check out K3DAV's page i linked it below. His exspanation how to make one differs from as many as the one differ in the ones listed in this thread. And I've read op's that used Dave's instructions with excellent results. Thanks to everyone.
