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davev8,
multiple experiments with radials/mast isolation/chokes prove to me that a choke can reduce cm currents, reduce noise, reduce/eliminate tvi and improve signals, its not a cure all,

in some cases adding a choke can make cm currents worse if the choke happens to resonate with whatever length coax you are using, i have not experienced it but i trust smart folk who say that's what can happen,

if adding a choke made matters worse i would change the coax length to see if i had an unlucky length, you could do the same without the choke and find a length that reduces cm currents
you can't cheat kirchhoff's current law with regular transverse wave electricity.

<blockquote data-quote="bob85" data-source="post: 427282" data-attributes="member: 18">davev8,multiple experiments with radials/mast isolation/chokes prove to me that a choke can reduce cm currents, reduce noise, reduce/eliminate tvi and improve signals, its not a cure all,in some cases adding a choke can make cm currents worse if the choke happens to resonate with whatever length coax you are using, i have not experienced it but i trust smart folk who say that&#039;s what can happen,if adding a choke made matters worse i would change the coax length to see if i had an unlucky length, you could do the same without the choke and find a length that reduces cm currentsyou can&#039;t cheat kirchhoff&#039;s current law with regular transverse wave electricity<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bob85, post: 427282, member: 18"] davev8, multiple experiments with radials/mast isolation/chokes prove to me that a choke can reduce cm currents, reduce noise, reduce/eliminate tvi and improve signals, its not a cure all, in some cases adding a choke can make cm currents worse if the choke happens to resonate with whatever length coax you are using, i have not experienced it but i trust smart folk who say that's what can happen, if adding a choke made matters worse i would change the coax length to see if i had an unlucky length, you could do the same without the choke and find a length that reduces cm currents you can't cheat kirchhoff's current law with regular transverse wave electricity;). [/QUOTE]

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