Hi folks, I was tinkering with a whip + counterpoise antenna connected to my KX3 by a short stretch of coax with BNC connectors a couple nights ago, and discovered (painfully) that there was quite a bit of RF coming back along the ground when I bumped the outside of the antenna connector. I know from experience that the KXPD3 can end up tingly in turn, and I'd like to avoid that.
If this were a fixed antenna, I'd just slap one of the LDG RU-1:1 ununs on it as a choke, but they're pretty chunky -- they're rated for 100 W CW, and have SO-239 connectors, which would require adapters on both sides in this setup. Does anyone know of a choke more appropriate for this kind of setup? I'd prefer something smaller (rated for maybe ~40-50 W continuous?) and natively BNC, so I don't need to juggle adapters. More broadly, is this the appropriate way to fix this problem? This was with the counterpoise extended as best I could, and with the radio powered from mains (which may have actually made the problem *worse* by providing a more attractive path than the counterpoise?). (As an aside, when components like baluns/ununs or tuners are rated as "100 W CW, 200 W SSB", do they mean literally a continuous wave, or do they mean CW at a standard Morse duty cycle of roughly 50%?) Thanks and 73, Julie ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
