George, I would advocate 100 uHy rather than 50 mHy - but for 40 thru 10 meters, 50 uHy is OK.
If you really meant 50 millihenries, then yes that would be quite fine for providing a DC path for the lower bands, but there may be strange effects on the higher bands due to stray capacity. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/18/2012 7:02 PM, N9AUP wrote: > OK Don, > > I pulled one leg of D9 and saw 54K forward and infinite reverse on the DVM > (no KAT2) so I'm guessing that's ok for a Schottky diode. I just now > checked the tuner taps and the antenna was charged up pretty good. . .that's > amazing since there's hardly a breeze and it isn't below freezing out. I > suppose my 35 foot linear loaded vertical dipole (with 6 foot capacitance > hats on on the far ends) is a pretty good static picker-upper. Do you think > I could get away with a choke to ground, say 50 MH on each leg of the ladder > line on the antenna side of the tuner? I guess I better do the math to > figure out what the impedance would be on each of the bands 40 thru 10 > --although heaven only knows what the antenna impedance would be on each > band. I guess I could always put the bleeder on the nominal 50 ohm side of > the tuner. > > 73, > > George > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
