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You do not need resistance to choke off CMC. You need inductive reactance (inductance) to offer a high impedance to the CMC. That is the whole idea of adding a choke. You WANT inductance to choke off the RF currents on the OUTSIDE of the cable. It has zero effect on currents INSIDE the cable. If resistance was what you needed you could insert a megohm resistor and all would be good. Using a specific length of cable (1/4 wave) does not get rid of the CMC it only creates a null at the equipment end and masks the problem.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 579311, member: 39"] You do not need resistance to choke off CMC. You need inductive reactance (inductance) to offer a high impedance to the CMC. That is the whole idea of adding a choke. You WANT inductance to choke off the RF currents on the OUTSIDE of the cable. It has zero effect on currents INSIDE the cable. If resistance was what you needed you could insert a megohm resistor and all would be good. Using a specific length of cable (1/4 wave) does not get rid of the CMC it only creates a null at the equipment end and masks the problem. [/QUOTE]

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