poppafred
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I am going to put up a Husler 4-BTV when it arrives.
Does anyone have any experience building their own feedline choke?
I cannot afford to buy the commercial feedline choke and mounting hardware right now, that will have to come later. Need to buy direct bury coax first anyway.
The 4-BTV manual describes how important it is to to have a feedline choke in line and how to build one using coax, so I sat down with a 5# coffee can (6" diameter) and a 30' piece of RG-8X and coiled up a choke. It took almost all of the 30' to make it.
The thing is, would it harm anything to use heavy duty all weather duck tape?
It holds the coils very well, it is supposed to tolerate exposure to the weather well and I had a roll already. I can undo it if I have to but will the duck tape harm anything?
Does anyone have any experience building their own feedline choke?
I cannot afford to buy the commercial feedline choke and mounting hardware right now, that will have to come later. Need to buy direct bury coax first anyway.
The 4-BTV manual describes how important it is to to have a feedline choke in line and how to build one using coax, so I sat down with a 5# coffee can (6" diameter) and a 30' piece of RG-8X and coiled up a choke. It took almost all of the 30' to make it.
The thing is, would it harm anything to use heavy duty all weather duck tape?
It holds the coils very well, it is supposed to tolerate exposure to the weather well and I had a roll already. I can undo it if I have to but will the duck tape harm anything?